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@Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 23:15:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Commecial Free and today you need
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Jerry Lapham wrote:
> On Thursday 07 August 2003 07:39 am, you wrote:
> 
>>   Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:36:44 +0950 (CST)
>>   From: "Paul Smedley" 
>>Subject: RE: Commecial Free and today you need
>>
>>Well I aim to reduce our being spammed by not allowing new members to join
>>the list without moderator approval.
>>
>>Generally the spammers approach is to join the list, spam, then leave.  The
>>process of requiring approval to join seems to stuff them up :)  They also
>>often have obvious email addresses that give away the fact that they're
>>spammers.
> 
> 
> Rather than guess at their intentions from their email addresses and reject 
> them as members, I set the parameters on my lists to require moderation of 
> all messages posted by new members.  That way when I see that 

> "wetandstickypanties{at}yahoo.com" has joined I just wait for
his/her porno spam 

That is kind of a "stretcher", of course the "thought"
of OS/2 has been 
known to start "flame wars", and setting up "religious
strongholds", for 
some people it might "evoke" that kind of reaction.. :-D

> and reject it.  It's worked so far.
> 
> 	-Jerry

MarkO


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