There is still a big loop hole here in ANY Case, UNLESS there is
a way to control who subscribes.  If I am a spammer who subscribes,
I can get, in a short time, the email address of everybody on the list.
I am sure i don't need to go into how this might be done.  Of course,
 by definition (and until somebody wises up to me) anything I "post",
spam. solicitation pr whatever, goes out to the entire list.  The only
answer i see is a filter, Using a list of known spammers.  Is there
some entity then that can supply such a list and keep it updated?
Otherwise it's back to the delete key.

Regards,

Nick D.

Dirickson Steve wrote:
>
>         <<> Unless I change this list to "moderated" and personally approve
> each message that goes out, we can be "spammed" by all sorts of trash.  I do
>         > not have the time to moderate the list, and even if I (or some
> volunteer) did, then you get into censorship issues -- are we deleting some
> people's posts?  editing them?  Big headache.
>
>         Can the listserv do "automated moderating," e.g. have it verify the
> address on every post as originating from a list member or some such check?
> Would this be hard to add into the listserv script? It almost certainly
> would take less time to write something like this than to moderate the list!
>
> Actually, LISTSERV has that capability built in:
>
>                 "7.12.4.        Self-moderated lists
>
>                 So-called "self-moderated" lists were invented in 1993 or
> 1994 when the current epidemic of spamming was beginning to get cranked up
> and before the "spam filter" was developed by L-Soft. With the spam filter
> in operation, self-moderation is not as much of an issue anymore, but some
> lists still run this way.
>
>                 Self-moderation takes advantage of the ability to make an
> access-level a secondary list editor, and is implemented as follows:
>
>