Re: [Alug] Increasing spam

On Sun, 06 May, 2001 at 1:16 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:

1. Can whoever has posted our mailing list address on a web site

*please* remove it again and email alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk to let us know?

Probably not gonna help -- anyone pointing a crawler at the list archive will see the alug address plenty of times. The address appears to be 'out there' now, so it's probably too late.

2. We can lock the list down so that only subscribed addresses can

sent without being approved.

Seems a reasonable course of action. We don't get many unsubscribed valid people wanting to post, do we?

3. We can lock the list down so that only emails with [Alug] in the

subject line are allowed through.

Blech!

5. We can hold anything which looks like it might possibly be spam for

approval

Seems fair.

6. We can ask Brett to hook the list software up to ORBS or MAPS.

Seems fair.

Opinions/votes? I hope that option 1 would work, but I quite like option 3 too.

+1 for 2, 5, 6. -1 for the others.

Andrew.