At 11:30 AM -0500 7/14/00, Gimp Gimpson wrote:
>I don't know what kind of control you have over what mail list
>software you use, but if this was made a private list where you
>cannot post to the list unless you are subscribed, and you had to
>reply to majordomo to confirm subscription, wouldn't that eliminate
>all those damn annoying list subscriptions we're getting from that
>lame-ass moron?
Because, all other things being equal, this would stop posts from
nominal nonsubscribers. For example, anonymous or remailed or nymed
posts. Which we consider to be bad ideas.
Your ideas were obvious in 1992.
There are solutions, but yours are not them.
(P.S. Toad.com has not been a preferred list address since early
1997. Please conform to modern reality.)
--Tim May
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W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
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