Sam, > By noon we had received endured the full "Wet Teen . . . ." > header being resent to the list four times by people who want to > complain about unacceptable SPAM. .... > Someone at least had the wisdom to change the header to "Why the delete > key is not enough!" and most others followed this lead but then this > produced about fifteen more messages. Guilty as charged, good point > We would have to use our delete keys much less if we didn't have this 20 > to 1 or greater reaction to almost every piece of spam that we get. This piece of deboned computer-processed luncheon meat was prticularly offensive > I don't see any of this as a reason to close the list. > We can take steps to reduce SPAM, particularly > very offensive SPAM - whatever that really is, but we don't have to > close the list to do it. >I vote to keep the list open, but to work at finding ways that are not > too troublesome for Tom Carrington, but that reduce the SPAM. > Hear, hear! JGS |
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