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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:13:59
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Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:45:09 EDT
In a message dated 9/18/98 3:53:52 AM EST, aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk writes:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Walter Burton wrote:
> >
> > > I understand the argument against this, but until we have some legal
> > > recourse to redress this b.s., that's the only solution that's gonna
> > > have a serious impact. Filtering would be beneficial, but most of the
> > > ones I see in the course of a day seem pretty random.
> >
> > I'd rather the law stays out of this.
>
> Amen to that!
>
> > I would prefer the "list members only" posting, and have several
> > members designated to forward anonymous posts. I'll volunteer.
> > That will kill the spam and give the group full access to a wide
> > range of messages.
>
> I'm not sure that this works that well because there are many people
> who are not "subscribed" to CodherPlunks who read it. For quite some
> time I used to read lists via nntp server at hks.net. Web archives
> are popular method of reading also for people with flat rate telecoms.
>
> Yes, you could have a separate "allowed to post" list which one can
> subscribe to separately, but really that is just extra hassle.
>
> Adam
There are a lot of people who dont like the idea of the allowed to post list
alot of people are perinoid and want to keep out of data bases but why not use
a filter that just deletes any thing that dosn not say CodherPlunks in the TO:
or CC: lines.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:13:59