Re: in case you missed this from ponik
> I would just like to point out the legal saying that "big cases make bad
> law." We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily
> an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all
> indications he's gone, and in any case by the end of the day no fewer than
> four distinct solutions to his violations were posted. Is there evidence
> that this is a more general problem?
Actually, yes. It's one of the worst cases of a problem.
I also get a couple spams a day from the list. We also have the cases of Windows
users posting questions to the list because the barrier to post is zero.
> Frankly, from my own observation, the more general problem is people who
> can't grasp the concept of a listmaster, so send messages with
> "unsubscribe" to the list. That seems easily soluble with a simple script.
This is true, a script can help. Search for a very short message with
"unsubscribe". This is a different type of problem.
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