Re: Spam

[Alan Meyer]

On 6 Dec 2001, at 7:08, fred smith wrote:

> Why are we letting all this spam come through the list?
> 
> Should the list be closed to non-subscribers?
> 
> Not a day goes by that I don't get 1-5 of these things from the list.
> 
> Fred

If our list server software permits it, I'm certainly in favor of:

1. Blocking redistribution of messages by non-subscribers.

2. Maintaining a blacklist of addresses or domains from which 
subscriptions are rejected.

I took the trouble of emailing the Russian server from which a lot of 
this junk seems to originate.  I explained that they were sending 
their advertisements to a non-Russian language mailing list of 
computer programmers and I politely asked them to stop.  But of 
course they ignored me.


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Alan Meyer
AM Systems, Inc.
Randallstown, MD USA
address@hidden