[Mac OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest #1 - 04/29/01

Michael Murray mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au
Mon May 7 10:33:17 EDT 2001


>On 2001/05/06, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:
>>(e.g., turning it into a moderated list or only allowing
>>postings from subscribers)
>
>	I think that only allowing postings from subscribers should
>definately be done - if the email address is on the web or usenet,
>eventually spammers will start sending stuff to it.  As this presents no
>problems for regular subscribers, it seems like a worthwhile setting to use.
>
>
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>* johann beda   <XNSName: =j-beda> <http://pobox.com/~j-beda/>   *
>
>
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Having been involved in the setting up of the OzTeX I second this.
We found out the hard way!
The other thing thats worth doing is turning off any ability
for people to find out from the list server the list of emails.
I don't know about letterrip but majordomo has a `who' command that
can be disabled.

Michael

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