Date:         Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:40:57 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: End to List SPAM
Comments: To: Lawrence Johnson <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA>
Comments: cc: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
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I'm for it myself.  And I don't see any need for Tom to babysit submissions
that listserv rejects, either.  No other list I'm on does that.  People who
need to submit under various addresses can join under those addresses and
set themselves NOMAIL on the ones where they don't want to receive.

david


At 11:32 AM 2/9/2001, Lawrence Johnson wrote:
>Tom and fellow List Members,
>
>The amount of SPAM appearing on the List has passed my tolerance level. This
>nuisance, together with the real threat of VIRUSes, suggests that perhaps
>it is
>time to close the door. If we returned to a closed list with just list
>subscribers submitting, these nuisance could be stopped dead.
>
>What do you think?
>-Larry

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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