From: Alain Williams (no email)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 04:05:27 EDT
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:40:25PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Patrick Gibson wrote:
>
> >Is there any particular reason why info-cyrus is not a closed list? It is
> >unnecessary in my opinion to be receiving spam via a list that can easily
> >restrict posting to subscribed members.
>
> The spam can be (and on other lists has been) forged as from members. Then
> what?
Quite possible ... but more difficult for the spammer to do.
Making it closed would improve matters.
I would also like to see '[info-cyrus]' put on the subject line.
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