Hello everybody In the light of a likely aggressive spam address managing to subscribe to one of our groups recently, Gordon has now modified the policy regarding new subscribers joining the list. Rather than the usual simple confirmation, new subscribers must now also be approved by either us or one of the assistant list controllers before they are permitted to join the group.
We regret the change, but as a result of us opting to use Google to provide a second archive page for list traffic, we believe that it has compromised our security somewhat and so we've had to take this decision now, before things got out of control. We are also looking at whether it's worth continuing to use Google as a second archive provider; if anybody uses that archive or if anybody has any views on that we'd love to hear them (off list). We will shortly be compartmentalising the support addresses we use for each network, so stand by for a message to that effect as well. But for now, please use <[email protected]> Gordon is home now although still very delicate. We are taking the opportunity while his activity is restricted to discuss this and other things which we are planning. We hope to bring you more news shortly. We will update the list policy document accordingly, to reflect this change in policy which, we regret, we think will now have to remain permanent. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
