From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Apr 20 11:42:12 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 20 Apr 2002 18:42:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 93320 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2002 18:42:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Apr 2002 18:42:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2002 18:42:11 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g3KIgB825262 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:42:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:42:11 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lists and Spam In-Reply-To: <22.275bb7d2.29f2d2a1@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Apparently, so long as anyone can join a list some pitchman will and > drop us a line. There is a difference between someone being able to send a spam to the mailing list, and our email addresses being sold so that spam can be sent to us directly. > Constant monitoring will prevent this, of course, but who has the time > for that on a heavy volume list like Lojban? One does not have to monitor every individual message. A list can be setup such that only those parties subscribed to it can send email to it. Each subscription can then be manually approved. (There aren't that many of them on this list. As Lojbab mentioned, <=3D400 in the past couple of years.) > Nor will the spamicators block this sort of stuff. Given that you've never used software like SpamAssassin, I think you'd be surprised by the effectiveness of it. And, to guarantee that nothing is lost, SpamAssassin could simply be arranged to move everything it thinks is spam to some sort of holding folder for manual approval. - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose