Spam would not be a problem if I hosted it either. As it's hosted locally I can block certain mails getting through. The server can also check against the ORBS lists etc
Tony P ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: Re: This list is shutting down. > In message <VA.00000657.003f2b06@elfriede>, Ehrenfried Ehrenstein > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Anthony Pottrell schrieb: > >> I would be more than willing to host the list off of my server! > >> > >> There server's based in the UK... if I have a list of the addresses I can > >> have it up and running in less than a day. > >> > >Well, the addresses aren't the problem: they (at least most of them) are > >available from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with review gerbils in the > >body... > > > >I would prefer such a list to those from yahoo etc, because I don't like > >the spam I must receive with every mail. But on the other hand the pro of > >yahoo etc would be the easily maintained archive? > > > >Ehrenfried > >-- > >http://home.wtal.de/ehr/gerbils/ > > You will like a Topica message then! > > Here is an example from another list - Look - No spam! > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ziggy6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > >He does find some strange connections true. :) In the Brit Reading Room > >one, he admits he's waited there for LONG periods of time to get access > >to certain books [even if he does produce and narrate and write a highly > >successful series...go figure] > > That was because nearly the entire stock was held off-site. If you > ordered anything it had to be brought by van from one of many secure > stores round London. > > I always used to order and tell them to hold it for me. I would then go > home and come back another day. > > I of course did not use that reading room, biology and medicine was > available from a grubby office building about half a mile away. > > Now the library has almost all its stock buried underground in its new > purpose built (and over budget) library about a mile from the old > building. The new computerised system means books arrive about ten > minutes after you order them, although I tend to save time by consulting > the catalogues online at www.bl.uk and phoning in my request before I > set out for the library! > > -- > Julian Barker > > There is a coherent plan in the universe, > though I don't know what it is a plan for. > - Sir Fred Hoyle 1915-2001 > > --- > "Many battles have been fought and won by > soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not > believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be > relied upon to endure hardships in case of > another war." > Frederick the Great, 1777 > > ==^================================================================ > This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrKkZ.bVyoVR > Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! > http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register > ==^================================================================ > > > > > > -- > Julian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > National Gerbil Society > http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
