David, thanks for your response. I understand that some spam will get through because of the system in place. This was the third message I got from this guy today, through this and another list I subscribe to. I think it was the second from this one, which is why I asked, but I did not save the other posts, so cannot be sure. Thanks again for your service. David ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 12:01 PM 3/14/2012, Dave Mcneely wrote: > >Mods, can this be stopped? mcneely > > No, it can't. The only way to stop it would be for moderators to > hold every post for approval, and that is not going to happen. > > Listserv has no way of telling that a message from a list member is > from a compromised account, so when that happens a minimum of one > spam message is going to be distributed. Whether that's the only one > depends on when a moderator reads the list mail -- we don't have a > set schedule or stand watches or anything like that. So far IIRC > we've always caught it before a second one. > > Yours, > d mod > -- David McNeely |
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