Re:spamming

["gary ciraulo" <twoblackdiamond@domain.elided>]

some of you have asked about the possibility of restricting
posting to
members of the list.

this facility is indeed available, and has been for sometime,
but it does
place an administrative burden on me, the list admin.

however, the recent increase in spam has led me to consider
re-instituting
this feature (we ran it several years ago, back when the lists
were still
on balltown.cma.com, and it had its hassles.)

i will be installing it, today, on the ihc and bmw mailing
lists. these two
lists have been selected because they have borne the brunt of
the spam
outbreak, and appear to have been sold on the same mailing list
to many
spammers.

this will cause some delays in the transmission of some
postings. the
reason for this is simple: some of you are in situations where
your
"subscribed" address differs to some extent from the one in your
from line.
in such cases, i have to take extra steps to permit your
postings through.
we'll just have to work through this as best we can; i will have
to
maintain a special list for both ihc and bmw of persons who are
permitted
to post despite the address mismatch.

**
Richard,

This is the first mailing list I've subscribed to so I don't have anyway 
to make any comparisons to any other lists.  However I feel that you are 
doing a GREAT job and if my postings are delayed it dosen't bother me 
one bit.

Gary Ciraulo
<twoblackdiamond@domain.elided>
*  '62 T'all  *

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