In article <01HYY89DAVZ68WW5JZ at life.uams.edu>, JJTHADEN at LIFE.UAMS.EDU writes:
|> > 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.
A couple months ago I offered to moderate this newsgroup. About 1/3
of respondents were opposed to the idea, and since I wasn't all that
eager to take on the responsibility, it ended there. The thing to
realize about moderating a newsgroup is this: someone has to do it,
and has to do it regularly and frequently. Until the moderator passes
a message, it won't go out.
I would be opposed to limiting postings to subscribers only. I am not
a subscriber, although I read bionet.celegans every day through USENET
and WWW.
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