Re: PROPOSAL: Addressing the list's spam issue: was: [GB2312] ±ÜÃâåeÎóµÄÍâÙQÐÐäN·½Ê

[Stephen Leake]

R P Herrold <address@hidden> writes:

> <snip>
> 
> Proposal: I propose to undertake to offer to moderate. If so
> designated, in moderating, my moderation will initially
> consist of turning on the option to catch and hold, pending
> discard, all non-subscriber posts.  I seek to manage held 
> posts at least daily, often a couple times during the day (a 
> subscriber's posts would continue to go straight thru ...)

Sounds great.

> All HTML, non-English (within the bounds of non-English speakers'
> good faith efforts), and spam will be silently discarded. 

Sounds great.

> Posters who post non-conformant meeting the foregoing criteria will
> be silently unsubscribed.

This bothers me. Newbies will often post from an html mailer (like
Outlook or the latest Netscape). I'd rather they get a warning/notice
that the list only accepts non-html mail, and possibly hints on how to
disable html, rather than being "silently unsubscribed". Maybe they
get three strikes? But if that's not easy to set up, let them read the
welcome note again :).

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