Are we gatewayed to a bit.listserv group?

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 22 03:09:38 1997

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:

>
> <I know a lot of these mailing lists are gatewayed to a newsgroup in a
> <special bit.listserv hierarchy. That might me a good idea for this group,
> <as the volume of messages here as gotten too unwieldy for e-mail. (I have
> <over a thousand messages unread from this group alone).
>
> I for one hope not. The few groups I write to that are a a constant source
> of junk mail from the spammers that parse them.

I could envision something "robo-moderated" (i.e. only people signed
up with the group could post to it, although everyone could read). I tend
to doubt anyone would go the trouble of signing on with a listserv,
just to spam. . .
Received on Tue Jul 22 1997 - 03:09:38 BST