Re:

[Crispin Cowan <crispin@wirex.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> The owner of the list was away on conferences for the last
> month or so...

Fair enough.  I just got back from conferencing myself, and I know what
deailing with the e-mail deluge is like.


> The main reason I cannot really lock down the list is because
> it seems to be mainly used for announcements. Locking down the
> list will make it unusable for the last thing the list seems
> to be used for recently...

I use it for announcements, and I vote for closing the list to
non-subscribers:

   * people making legitimate announcements will read the "you have to
     subscribe first" response and go aheand and subscribe
   * people spamming will just note the bounce and delete the list from
     their list of hundreds of thousands or millions of targets

requiring a subscription to make an announcement is lightweight for
legit posters, and too heavy for spammers.

Thanks,
    Crispin

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Crispin Cowan, Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
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