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9 May 2001


      Hi,
IMHO option 3 should work against most.
Kevvy
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From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Organization: Cat-killingly bad
Date: 06 May 2001 01:16:23 +0100
Subject: [Alug] Increasing spam
We're getting more spam now.  There are a number of options open to
us:
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?
2. We can lock the list down so that only subscribed addresses can
sent without being approved.
3. We can lock the list down so that only emails with [Alug] in the
subject line are allowed through.
4. We can try to fight a rear-guard action and try to block obvious
spammers.
5. We can hold anything which looks like it might possibly be spam for
approval
6. We can ask Brett to hook the list software up to ORBS or MAPS.
Opinions/votes?  I hope that option 1 would work, but I quite like
option 3 too.
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MJR
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