>> Isn't there any way to screen solicitations to our net?
>>The administrators of bionet just extended an offer to any of the lists to
>send software that makes this possible.
>>I subscribe to another list that "cured spam" by restricting postings to
>the list to subscribers only. Some objected at first to "closing" the
>list in this way for fear of limiting access to newcomers, but that
>seemed to not be a problem.
I strongly feel that restricting postings to subscribers would be
inappropriate. The better alternative would be to have the newsgroup
moderated, a suggestion that had originally been made by Leon, but which at
the time received mixed reviews and therefore got canned. Maybe it's time
to reconsider that option.
Mir
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