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I've got no problem with helping on a manual subs cribe!  Anything to get 
rid of spammers.  By the way - I parsed the headers and reported him to 
spamcop!

Margaret


At 03:42 AM 7/06/00, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/6/2000 7:16:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >www.PhantomBlue@learn.com writes:
> >
> ><< EASIEST WAY TO MAKE MONEY EVER >>
> >
> >How did this get in the sinclair discussion net????????/
>
>The spammer joined the list first.
>
>Margaret (milamba) has already removed the spammer from the list.
>
>To prevent this is is why I had previously had the list set up to
>require confirmation from the person.  That confirmation would have
>failed in this case and prevented this problem.
>
>However, I turned off that feature a few weeks ago because of
>complaints that it was to hard to use.  So at this point anyone can
>join.  The problem with that is what you have observed: even
>spammers can join.
>
>A third possibility is to go to manual confirmation of new list members.
>I don't like it, because people will complain about delays in getting on,
>but I'm willing to do it if Margaret and Gary are willing to assist.
>
>John
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