Re: [EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-21 Thread Rob Lanphier
It looks like (c) is the most popular option, so that's what I'll be implementing, short of any further discussion/debate on the list. I'd like to respond to David's mail below: David GLAUDE wrote: Obviously answer to the problem is to really moderate the list... not every 20 days. Sifting

Re: [EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-21 Thread David GLAUDE
Rob Lanphier wrote: Obviously answer to the problem is to really moderate the list... not every 20 days. Sifting through spam in a limited webform interface is a task I really don't look forward to. So, unfortunately, it may be 20 days between times that I do this. Maybe that is the problem,

Re: [EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-20 Thread Gervase Lam
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:41:07 -0800 From: Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EM] Batch of old messages a.  allow legit posts through, regardless of how old I don't think this is a good idea. As you mentioned earlier, somebody could have figured out they needed to subscribe

Re: [EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-20 Thread Forest Simmons
I think you should go for option c, but if a particular post catches your eye and turns out to be interesting to you, let it go through. Forest On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi all, You'll probably notice a batch of fairly old messages coming through on the list. This is because

Re: [EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Gorr
At 1:09 PM -0800 11/20/03, Forest Simmons wrote: I think you should go for option c, but if a particular post catches your eye and turns out to be interesting to you, let it go through. I would vote for just bouncing the posts and telling the people to joinoption c. My full preferences,

[EM] Batch of old messages

2003-11-19 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi all, You'll probably notice a batch of fairly old messages coming through on the list. This is because I just went through the queue of 28 messages which sat in the moderator queue, and found the half a dozen or so that are legit emails, as opposed to the rest, which were spam. The reason