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Subject: Re: Mailinglist spamming countermeasures
From: Clint Bowman <clint @ ecy . wa . gov>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 7:44:09 PDT
To: ala @ LunaCity . com (alyson l abramowitz) (alyson l abramowitz)
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM, ala @ hustle . rahul . net
In-reply-to: <PDsJDD7w165w@LunaCity.com>; from "alyson l abramowitz" at Oct 25, 95 3:01 pm
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

 Alyson L Abramowitz writes:
  
> BTW,  I am concerned with the idea of teachers telling someone to
> subscribe to a list as a teaching assignment.  This seems like
> a waste of administrator's times and an abuse of lists.  I suspect
> that if we put together a simple explainatory note for teachers
> which could be sent to those teachers abusing the system and,  perhaps,
> another,  which might be directed at Deans/Dept Heads this problem
> might go away.  I suspect its' one of ignorance rather than the
> spammer's malice.
>
 
Another solution, which would satisfy the teacher's intent as well as protect 
list managers time as well, would be to help some of the teachers set up a list 
that could be used by them for class assignments (like subscribing to a list.)


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