On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, David W. Tamkin wrote: > Now to wait a few minutes until some dip on this list decides > that my recognizing degrees among spam is a pro-spam position > and flames me for it.
At the risk of being even more pro-spam that you, I expressly allow limited on-topic commercial posts. We've discussed allowing ads with various restrictions before on listmanagers. I've averaged less than one abuse of comercial posting privileges a year. Most of those abuses have been a matter of degree: excessive length, excessive frequency, off-topic yard-sale type post from a regular participant. I've never had a sex ad, a stock tip or make money fast sort of spam... Had quite a few human propagated viruses (tell everyone you know variants: modem tax, delete file X, watch out for something-or-another, etc.). Haven't seen one of these for a year or two. I set new subscribers to moderate their first two posts using Lyris software... I strongly suspect one approval would catch the vast majority of spammers. Even Chuq's case where a spammer went through the subscribe confirmation process is quite rare. Let's hope it stays that way. - murr - Cc: list deleted
