Can't you stop

[Martin Christensen]

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>>>>> "Werner" == Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:
Werner> Sorry, some spam slips through the filters.  There are two
Werner> ways I can see to prevent this:
Werner> * Defer posts to the ML so that someone has a chance to cancel
Werner> them
Werner> * Close the ML, so that only subscribers can post.  I'd do
Werner> that but the task of the listmaster (me!) will get harder as
Werner> he has to do approvals several times a day.
Werner> I'd prefer to implement the latter option but unless there is
Werner> no way to do the administration tasks by email it does not
Werner> make much sense as it takes quite some time to do this over
Werner> the web interface.

Isn't the quite limited amount of spam an acceptable price for an open
list? Sure, it's annoying, but when it's no more of a problem, then
I think that most people should be able to live with it. Certainly
rather than than making the list closed, or, ghasp, moderating it.

Martin

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