Re: Anti-SPAM Suggestion...

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:08:55 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:

>> your description is slightly confusing to me. Do you mean
>> (1) Either be on the list OR post with [lk], or
>> (2) Be on the list AND post with [lk]?
>
>There's another possibility (in use with some of the mailing
>lists I'm on).
>
>Subscribed users (or a selected subset thereof) can freely post
>to the list and all other posts to the list are moderated.
>
>Since 90% of the traffic seems to come from regulars, it doesn't
>put too much of a load on the moderators (volunteers??? preferably
>in 4 or 5 different timezones) and it really keeps the list clean.

Who volunteers to be the moderator?

A moderated list is a "closed" list IMHO. We might as well call
Linux "LinBSDux" if we do that.

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