[buug] buug-pr mailing list?

[Jon McClintock]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:41:07PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> It's probably sufficient to (1) block non-subscriber posts, (2) post
> a policy saying job announcements / press releases must be posted 
> via an officer if at all, and (3) lock out with derisive laughter
> anyone who ignores that policy.
> 
> I suspect that point #1 is the main problem, at present.

The buug at weak.org mailing list does block non-subscriber posts. 

However, the buug-admin mailing list does not. It will not and can not; we
need a general point-of-contact for our group.

Unfortunately, it appears that a great deal of semi-respectable companies
scan through the user group listings for email addresses and then spam them
all. 

Witness the UCE with the addresses of 20 or 30 user groups in the recipient
field.

We do have a posted policy against UCE. It doesn't really help against people
who are using automatically generated lists.

-Jon