On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> Now to wait a few minutes until some dip on this list decides
> that my recognizing degrees among spam is a pro-spam position
> and flames me for it.
At the risk of being even more pro-spam that you, I expressly
allow limited on-topic commercial posts. We've discussed
allowing ads with various restrictions before on listmanagers.
I've averaged less than one abuse of comercial posting privileges
a year. Most of those abuses have been a matter of degree:
excessive length, excessive frequency, off-topic yard-sale type
post from a regular participant. I've never had a sex ad, a
stock tip or make money fast sort of spam... Had quite a few
human propagated viruses (tell everyone you know variants: modem
tax, delete file X, watch out for something-or-another, etc.).
Haven't seen one of these for a year or two.
I set new subscribers to moderate their first two posts using
Lyris software... I strongly suspect one approval would catch
the vast majority of spammers. Even Chuq's case where a spammer
went through the subscribe confirmation process is quite rare.
Let's hope it stays that way.
- murr -
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