On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> > Actually it appears to be NOT unique that these frigging spammers
> > get on. But it only takes one spam, and they are banned and their
> > message deleted. Its the price we pay for having open enrollment
> > for the list.
> >
>
> Don't forget that spammers recently got clever enough to use valid
> members' email addresses. (And that a spammer's from-address doesn't
> mean anything, and that they never use the same address twice
> anyway). :o)
>
> Maurits.
I didn't know that about the addresses. It might be worth having the
bit where they have to write a note to the owner saying why they're
joining when they sign up, but frankly, as long as the volume of spam
stays low, it's worth it to have an unmoderated list, even if our
volume has been low as of late.
Gregory