Skip, et. al.,
Authoritative information follows :)
The list accepts only mails from subscribers. All other mail ends in
my inbox. This includes, daily:
- 1-2 listmembers, who has more than one address and mixes up which
is subscribed to the list,
- a gazilion offers of medication which can....ehh....grow your
"focal length" without perscription :)
- a few mails offering to descramble your TV channes for free,
- some guy in Nigeria, decendant of a diseased high-level offical of
some regime, who has selected "dr. olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" as a
"reputable partner for an international transaction involving
transfering money around,
- a couple of people thinking that this is an official contact
address for Olympus USA / Japan, and want to have their digital
camera serviced.
I'd say that it amounts to about 50-70 such mails per day which the
list is spared....
However you may find your email address harvested and spam sent to
thatone outside the list. I wish I could do something about that, but
I can't ;(
Ohh, and btw., I get about 150 pieces of spam daily from different
places. Fortunately I have decent spam-filters, but daily a good
bunch get through and requires attention :(
Regards,
--thomas
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:31:02 -0500
Skip Williams <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought that last year the list software had been reconfigured to
> be a subscribers only list, where only messages from people who
> were on the subscriber list were let through. Wouldn't this stop
> the spam?
>
> Skip
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