I mark every spam message I receive as spam as opposed to simply deleting it. I get very few spam now, and I never get spam from the same email address twice. So far it is managable, so I do think it helps. Charlene
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, timothy nathan <[email protected]> wrote: From: timothy nathan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IC27A] Important Message Waiting! To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 11:17 AM Exactly. This is supposed to be fun. Therefore, this will be my only email on the topic. I hate. I mean hate the number of spam I get from every direction. On average, I get 5-10 relevant e-mails/day and I get maybe 100+ spam emails. Any suggestion that would increase the precentage of relevant emails would be appreciated. While I understand the desire to explode this topic into a censorship/constitu tional law, I am not worried about that on a board dedicated to sailing.. I am on here to get help and help others with sailing. If the burden gets too high I, as I assume others as well, will just drop off the list. If this was a board dedicated to policital speach I would feel differently, but it isn't. More talk about sailing and less about bull would be great. TO start the ball rolling, I hereby publically surrender my right to talk about anything other than sailing on this board. --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Derek Atkin <atkin...@yahoo. com> wrote: From: Derek Atkin <atkin...@yahoo. com> Subject: Re: [IC27A] Important Message Waiting! To: ic...@yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 2:04 PM I don't think that we are looking at censorship or exclusivity on this board. The only goal behind an approval process for membership is verification that the individual is actually a person interested in Catalina 27/270s and not a bot trying to Spam a membership list. This is not much different from a captcha on a message board - verifying that a user is a person before a user account is approved. just my .02 cents worth. D.- From: Ralph E. Ahseln <rahs...@comcast. net> To: ic...@yahoogroups. com Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 1:47:50 PM Subject: Re: [IC27A] Important Message Waiting! May I say, that starting an " Approval " process for this or any other communications program, could be standing on a Slippery Slope. The intrusion of "Unwanted" postings is, at the present time, a small bother compared to what could result from a "Filtering" of membership. The exclusion of anyone because of perceived or real "Threats" is, at the least, a loss of democratic freedom. I agree that when an individual offends the laws of the society that he/she is part of, then actions can and should be taken. But, to have an "approval" required before joining a Public Forum, and by an "unajudicated" method, to exclude anyone, indeed, raises some questions... Who decides membership standards?. What criteria will be used for acceptance or rejection?. Would there be a Hearing process?. Any exclusion by an individual(s) ...may abridge many basic rights. Do we really want that ? There are many questions that need to be answered, If and before we create an "Exclusive Club". While I too am bothered and even angered when my mailbox receives SPAM or an invitation to Porn, I am opposed to any form of censorship. I'm fully against any approach to make this list or any common communications tool... Exclusive to all but an "Accepted" membership. Ralph E. Ahseln "Oblio" Gresham OR ----- Original Message ----- From: pja...@sbcglobal. net To: ic...@yahoogroups. com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: [IC27A] Important Message Waiting! The person who posted this message has had their membership revoked and the message has been removed. If if have a copy by email please delete it. We can stop reoccurance by adding an approval step for joing the group. Should we do that now?
