[Glastonbury] award-winning ~ spam

s~TV glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Aug 10 10:17:00 2003


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.
>
the list is housed with lug.org.uk ~ don't know how much power i have
i can email them and explain the problem (i'm sure we're not the first

>
>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.
>
absolutely
didnt like the idea anyway
s~TV