[EM] Change in posting policy

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi all,

For those of you who've been on the list a while, you may remember last
year I sent out a message asking if I should allow non-members to post (if
not, read the message below). I received a couple of private objections
and decided not to do it.

I've decided to go ahead and open things up because of a particularly
compelling request to do so (the fact that the archives are all available
online for those that prefer to read this list via the web archive to
having the rather large volumes of mail from this list come at them). One
consequence may be that a little more spam gets through to the list.  If
this becomes a problem, I'll turn it back off, but I don't think it will
be.

Rob Lanphier
robla at eskimo.com
http://www.eskimo.com/~robla

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:28:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Rob Lanphier <robla at eskimo.com>
To: election-methods-list at eskimo.com
Subject: [EM] Spam control
Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:28:24 -0800
Resent-From: election-methods-list at eskimo.com

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