I have a few times had occasion to actually see the queue of messages that Charlie and Jeremy have to wade through regularly to ensure that spam and virus emails don't get through to air-l, and it is amazing how many there are. They have done a terrific job of keeping the list trouble-free, but to continue to ask them to serve as human email filters is indeed inhumane. I'll keep fingers crossed that the solution that's now implemented works. And I'd also like to remind everyone that if you get a message that a posting didn't go through, let Jeremy know. The vast majority of the time it happens it is because there is a slight change in one's mail server or mail system that causes the sender's address to look different than the address under which the sender is subscribed. The mailman system is fairly easy for users to administer (the administration url is at the foot of every message to airl-) and in general we should not need Charlie's or Jeremy's help. Thank you, Charlie and Jeremy, for your continued efforts on behalf of AoIR. Sj On Jun 14, 2004, at 9:28 AM, elijah wright wrote:
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
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