[Glastonbury] award-winning ~ spam

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:56:31AM -0700, s~TV wrote:
> looks like we are going to be getting more spam in the near future.
> clicking on bogus "remove me" urls verifies that your email is real.
> quite how this all started is puzzling.
> it was when
> 
> Glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk sent an email to itself
> 
> anyone object if i change the default setting to "members only" being 
> able to post?
> s~TV
Steve,

The first thing to do, if it is within your power, is to install 
something like Spamassassain to filter junk mail out. SA trains
over a period and will remove junk automatically after a while.

Restricting "rest of the world" access to LUGoG lists could
have one of two undesirable effects:

1. Anyone from a neighbouring LUG who wanted to tell us about
e.g. an install fest or machines going begging would have
to be a list subscriber and maintain their subscription.

2. J Random Glastonbury resident hears about the LUG somewhere
and decides that (s)he wants to find out more before he joins.
He/she may feel "members only" posting discourages from actually
joining the list.

Just my random 0.02 Euro,

Andy