Re: this list is suffering...

["John J. Rehr" <jjr@leonardo.phys.washington.edu>]

Hi Bruce,

  Thanks very much for this suggestion - I regret it has taken
me so long to deal with this annoyance.  I will modify the feffusers
list parameters rule so that only registered members of the can post
messages.

   J. Rehr



On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Bruce Ravel wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to request that some sort of filtering be placed on the
> feffusers list.  Lately, much of the traffic has been spam.  On the
> ifeffit list, Matt set things up so that anyone not registered to the
> list cannot make an unmoderated posting to the list.  Whenever ifeffit
> gets an unregistered posting, either Matt or I has to approve it.
> It's proven to be a small amount of work and, as anyone on both lists
> can attest, the quality of signal (measured by legitimate posts
> compared to spam posts) has been considerably higher on the ifeffit
> list than on feffusers.
> 
> It seems a shame for me to unsubscribe from the feffusers list, but I
> must admit I considered it when the latest 419 scam came down the
> pipe.
> 
> B
> 
> P.S. I notice that some anti-spam processing in the mail header of the
> recent 419 scam letter.  Perhaps feffusers could at least be
> configured to use that.
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