Spam

[Koen Claessen]

Hi all,

Sorry to bother you with a message about spam.

I have noticed two things about this mailing list:

* Every once in a while, we get messages like "your e-mail
  is under consideration for sending to the list". This
  suggests that the mailing list is moderated, and that
  there is some person deciding on what can and what cannot
  be sent to the list.

  (One could discuss wether it is a good idea to send these
  messages to the whole list rather than just to the person
  who sent them, but let us not discuss that here.)

* Very often, we get spam e-mail. This suggests that nobody
  is moderating the list.

These two observations are in contradiction with each other.

Couldn't we allow list subscribers to submit to the list
without problems, whereas non-list subscribers have to be
approved by a list moderator?

Just my 2 öre,
/Koen.