>Actually, X moderator approved posts is safer than moderating new
>subscritions for X days. I doubt you'll find many spammers who
>are willing to write two or three on-topic posts just to inject
>one spam to a mailing list. Also, checking a couple of posts
>from new subscribers will give you the opportunity to catch most
>newbie mistakes like "me too!" posts, quoting back an entire
>digest, wildly off-topic posts, posting "stop my subscription"
>requests, flame bating and such.
Yes, good point. Thanks! (We're probably moving our lists to MailMan, and
I'll have to check whether it can handle that automagically.)
Margy Levine Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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