due to the large number of spam and virus's that we receive on the list which require moderation, i have turned on an auto-rejection for posts of unsubscribed addresses. this is currently experimental, i want to see whether it is tenable for a list like ours. let me know if you run into problems.
this is what i do for lists i run, too. one of those has over a thousand subscribers. every week or so i will have to send *one* user a note that says "you have to subscribe to the list before you can post" - this is *way* better than what happens otherwise. NOT doing things this way (i.e. not auto-rejecting posts from people who aren't subscribed) can eat up so much of a moderator's time as to be very, very impractical. i think this is a good change, jeremy, if only because it takes some load off of you. it is the humane thing to do :) elijah