CHANGE THE DAMM HEADER! Was:Re: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE Now: control of postings

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat May 11 22:39:38 2002

   I've been on this list for several years and I don't ever remember a non-member posting a message here offering anything*. However I've seen a number of non-members post questions here such as when Susun Gonzales posted the question here about the HP 88140 tapes earlier today.
   *Several members have been offered stuff directly and forwarded the messages here.

  Personally I don't think we'd lose a thing by stopping postings by non-members and it would (should!) stop the SPAM.

 
   Joe


At 04:08 PM 5/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I think I remember something like "if we restricted posting to non-list
>members, some non-list members with legitimate hardware offers may not be
>able to make the offers...." or something.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill_at_mrbill.net>
>To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 3:52 PM
>Subject: Re: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
>
>
>> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:14:04AM +0200, Sipke de Wal wrote:
>> > I suppose that this kinda scam-spam could easely be removed
>> > in future bij filtering for the word "Nigeria"
>>
>> Or, since the new setup uses Mailman, restrict posting to list members
>> only. Thats' what I've done on my (large) lists and it works fine.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --
>> Bill Bradford
>> mrbill_at_mrbill.net
>> Austin, TX
>>
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>
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