[NTLUG:Discuss] laser printer toner advertising

[Steve Baker]

Kendall Clark wrote:

> The tension between making this list usable and closing it to all spam
> is not an easy one to resolve. Obviously making this list closed to
> all but its subscribers shuts out much spam, but it also shuts out
> people from posting from non-subscribed addresses. I'm not entirely
> sure which one is the worse problem.

Well, as I said, I admin several lists (with a few hundred people on
each) - and I set them all up to exclude posts from non-subscribers.

So far, I have not had any complaints about that policy...so I do
believe it to be the lesser of two evils.  I understand your reluctance
though.

There is an even more stringent setting in some list servers that
prevents people from posting until they have been subscribed for
some initial period - a week perhaps.  That seems a VERY nasty thing
for subscribers - so I don't turn that on.
 
> Since the message in question was apparently sent on November 5th, I'm
> not terribly inclined to do anything about it *now*.

Yes - but we are obviously on their list of victims - so it *will*
recur.

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