[ADMINISTRIVIA]: Change list submission policy please?

[William Lee Irwin III]

At some point in the past someone had their attribution stripped:
>>> The haskell mailing list is getting an increasing amount of
>>> spam, viruses, and virus warnings.  Would it be possible
>>> to change the list policy to only allow submissions from
>>> subscribed members?  Please?

Ralf Hinze <ralf@informatik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>> I'd like to second this. The amount of spam etc is becoming
>> more and more annoying ...

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:
> Thirded!  While we won't easily get rid of Outlook-viruses (since the
> list may appear in people's address books), at least we can get rid of
> the loads of warnings from misconfigured mail servers following them.

Fourthed. I get 15+Kmsgs/day that are semi-legitimate and every last
piece of spam that shows up as an individual thread slows me down by
quite a bit, for bulk thread-nuking is the only way I get through any
significant fraction of the stuff at all.


Cheers,
Bill