Hi all, For those of you who've been on the list a while, you may remember last year I sent out a message asking if I should allow non-members to post (if not, read the message below). I received a couple of private objections and decided not to do it. I've decided to go ahead and open things up because of a particularly compelling request to do so (the fact that the archives are all available online for those that prefer to read this list via the web archive to having the rather large volumes of mail from this list come at them). One consequence may be that a little more spam gets through to the list. If this becomes a problem, I'll turn it back off, but I don't think it will be. Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:28:20 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EM] Spam control Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:28:24 -0800 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] One measure that I use to limit spam to this list is to not allow email from those that are not list members. This has the unintended consequence of not allowing non-list-members who are being discussed (Donald Saari for instance) to reply to comments about him on this list (without joining). I don't see too much spam to this list these days (for instance, only three pieces of spam this year were caught because of this). However, the risk is that the amount of spam could rise as messages from spammers stop bouncing and this alias gets added to more lists. So, my question to the list: should I allow outside postings? (more info on spam can be found at http://stopspam.oreilly.com/) Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla
