If the list were "closed" then you would have to screen all the
applicants? It would be nice for us, but what about your work load?

John Hedges

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:

> aloha, y'all!
>
> recently, BLIND-DEV, like every list, has been hit by a rash of
> spammers...  as i indicated in an earlier post, this is as an inevitable
> reality of online life as is junk mail and phone calls from
> telemarketers...  and, while the folks at MAELSTROM do an excellent job
> blocking as much spam as possible, it is impossible for them to intercept
> and/or block all of the spam that is sent to the lists maintained at
> MAELSTROM...  and, while i endeavor to contact the postmaster at the
> originating domain, asking them to instruct the subscriber to cease and
> desist, many such requests are either never acknowledged, or i receive
> email from the domain's system adminstrator thanking me for alerting them
> that someone's been spoofing an account using their domain name...
>
> so, i, as listowner, am proposing that the BLIND-DEV list change its
> posting policy, so that only subscribers would be able to post to the
> list...  right now, anyone can post to the list -- a decision
> democratically agreed to when the list was founded -- while there was a
> faction that strongly believed that, given the list's (ostensive) technical
> orientation, public posting was neither necessary nor desirable, a larger
> faction believed that it was in the best interest of the list, as well as
> those whose lives discussions on BLIND-DEV are intended to improve (or at
> least ameliorate), that the list remain "open", meaning that one need not
> be subscribed in order to post...
>
> so, i'm putting the question to you again -- please email
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> with your vote...  once again, your choices are:
>
> 1. limit posting privileges to BLIND-DEV subscribers ONLY, or;
> 2. keep the list "open" so that anyone can post to it
>
> thank you for your continued participation in BLIND-DEV, and please
> remember to send your vote to the listowner eddress
> <[log in to unmask]> and NOT to the list!
>
> sincerely,
> gregory j. rosmaita, listowner, BLIND-DEV
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