Re: [SLUG] Home Based Business for you.Check it out !!!

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Jon Biddell">

> Firstly, this is not an idotic statement - the SPAM situation will get
> worse - maybe not immediately for this list, but it will happen. It's
> already happening elsewhere (example: SWMBO's emai ltoday - 19 of 25
> emails were spam, a dramatic increase over the past few weeks).

Perhaps you are not providing the kind of spam prevention for your SWMBO
that we are for the list. It's fairly robust and dynamic.

> Secondly, I'll say it again. Only allowing subscribers to post (and
> allowing posting from multiple addresses, while having the list sent to
> one address maybe) is certainly possible and is the only way, IMNSHO, to
> effectively eliminate SPAM.

Whilst significantly increasing the volunteer effort to administer the list,
and confuse lots of people, reducing the quality and accessibility of the
list. We could solve those problems by turning the server off, too.

> Thirdly, I wasn't aware you were censoring comments about SPAM now ?

If we were censoring comments about SPAM, do you think this thread would
have reached the list? We simply recommend that people resist the temptation
to reply to spam on the list (which is fruitless, annoying, and just makes
the problem worse) instead of approaching the list admins or the committee.

If you feel like replying to this mail, please respect the reply-to. I'm not
going to post to this thread on slug@ again.

- Jeff

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