Re: majordomo and trapping spam versus Listserv.

[Eric Thomas <ERIC @ VM . SE . LSOFT . COM>]

On   Mon,  5   Feb  1996   08:51:35  -0800   (PST)  Diane   Barlow  Close
<close@lunch.engr.sgi.com> said:

>TERRY  OWEN  <BRIONYLODGE@CRPL.CEDAR-RAPIDS.LIB.IA.US> wrote:  With  all
>> this talk of spams hitting the  mailing lists represented here, I just
>> thought  I'd mention  that  the listserv  at  psuvm.psu.edu (where  my
>> fanzine list resides) faithfully dumps these in with my error messages
>> from the list. All I have to do is delete them.
>
>Majordomo does the same thing.

No, it doesn't. Majordomo lets you configure your list so that people who
aren't on  the list  can't post. LISTSERV's  spam detector  catches spams
even when the list is totally open  and anyone is allowed to post (and of
course you can also restrict posting to subscribers, moderator, etc).

  Eric