Date:         Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:49:10 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
Organization: TransCanada
Subject:      Re: Spam! (was: INCREDIBLE money making opportunity)
Comments: To: Peter Cassidy <pcassidy@APPLE.COM>
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Well, it was set up like that for a while.  But then, people who know of
the list, but may not be subscribed can't post (or if you have two email
addresses and one you use only on the road, like a Hotmail address, and
you find yourself in trouble, you can't post to the list from your other
account).  There are certain people on the list whose mail headers Gerry
doesn't like, so it would reject them as well.  All these exceptional
emails had to go through Tom Carrington, and there would be a few
messages a day that were from "person@address (by way of T. Carrington)"
or something like that.

It was felt that the extra burden on Tom wasn't worth the odd spam
message.  The new software upgrade for Gerry was supposed to be better
at identifying and deleting spam than before.  Maybe not?

That's how I remember it.
Keith Adams
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia "Roxy"

Peter Cassidy wrote:

> Folks,
>
>      This spam is getting worse. And it *is* coming via the mailing
> list. Is there anything we can do to stop it, like allowing members
> only to post??
>
> Pete C
>
> --
> Pete  Cassidy,                   pcassidy@apple.com
> Cork, Ireland                http://www.iol.ie/~pcassidy
> '88 Wolfsburg "Muriel"         *not speaking for Apple*