Bill Rininger wrote:

> How about the only messages from list members can be posted.  Put some kind
> of filter on the reciever and just pitch those that are not from members of
> the list.
>
> Bill

This suggestion pops up every2 to 3 months. It won't workbecause some members' send and receive
email addresses
aren't the same.

Now somebody is going to suggest a move to a newsgroup.
One idiot will think it is a vote, and post "YES" to the list. A
few more won't want to lose out on a vote, and add theirs.

Out of frustration, someone else will accidentally quote the
spam. This will, of course, result in multiple "REMOVE"
replies. By this time, the bandwidth topic will be flogged
repeatedly because the spam would have been quoted
and re-quoted about fifty times.

Guess what will happen then? Yes! the "SIGNOFF
PICLIST" messages.

It goes in cycles, see.

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Tjaart van der Walt
mailto:tjaart@wasp.co.za

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