[EM] Spam control

[David Catchpole]

I'm on several egroups lists which have an open submission policy, and I
have to say that I haven't had spam within memory on any of them.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Rob Lanphier wrote:

> One measure that I use to limit spam to this list is to not allow email
> from those that are not list members.  This has the unintended consequence
> of not allowing non-list-members who are being discussed (Donald Saari for
> instance) to reply to comments about him on this list (without joining).
> 
> I don't see too much spam to this list these days (for instance, only
> three pieces of spam this year were caught because of this).  However, the
> risk is that the amount of spam could rise as messages from spammers stop
> bouncing and this alias gets added to more lists.
> 
> So, my question to the list:  should I allow outside postings?  (more info
> on spam can be found at http://stopspam.oreilly.com/)
> 
> Rob Lanphier
> robla at eskimo.com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~robla
> 
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