[Ravensfort] Spam/suggestion

doug bell magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 21 08:15:15 PDT 2002


>When it happened to Gates Edge they closed the list for posting
>purposes...(people subscribed could post freely but
>anyone not subscribed was moderated...but the archives were still
>open to read from the web...)
>
>This would increase the time involved for the moderator...because they
>would have to approve or disapprove the messages from outside...but
>would keep the list and archives (and our mailboxes) from being filled
>with spam....

The heralds list had to do the same thing.

Just to give an idea of the problem my ISP is bouncing
half a million spams a week aimed at their system.
Most are coming from Japan, Sweden, and China.

Attacks by spammers can drown a list rather quickly.

Magnus


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