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Alexander Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
On Jan 27, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Bo Parker wrote:
Why are non-subscribers allowed to post to fink-beginners? It seems crazy to me - it lets in these Windows worms/viruses in addition to the spam and the Nigerian scams.
I run a medium-sized (1700 subscribers) guitar-oriented LISTSERV mailing list, and non-subscribers are not allowed to post, and also we reject all messages with attachments, including HTML email.
Guess what? Our mailing list *never* distributes worms/viruses or spam.
Something to think about.
I'm changing it right now. Up until now we had it so that non-subscribers can post because many of our users wouldn't want to sign up for a mailing list to get help with just one issue. In the case of the fink-devel list, it would mean you have to subscribe before you can give feedback on some fink packages. :(
But for now, this is insane, I'm going to turn off non-subscriber posts until we can find out why sourceforge isn't virus-scanning this crap in the first place.
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