Re: ADV:CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

[Evelyn Hawke <evengstr@thepentagon.com>]

At 03:40 AM 10/25/00, you wrote:
>Maddy wrote:
> >
> > Considering the vulnerability of the list to this kind of *cough*
> > spam, might you want to change the permissions so that only
> > authorised parties can post? Or do you not have that kind of control
> > over your list's permissions?
>
>I have a possibility to restrict the permissions so that only the
>subscribed addresses can post to the list. However, since many
>subscribers work with multiple addresses, and often post messages from
>other addresses than the one they subscribed, that setting would lead to
>plenty of the legitimate postings be bounces to me, and I would need to
>forward them to the list manually. Since this forwarding routine is
>rather time consuming, I'd prefer not to use the possibility to restrict
>the posting permissions yet because of one single spam message.
>
>However, if spam messages begin to appear frequently, I won't hesitate
>to restrict the posting permissions.
There's no way to put additional addresses on the list, but set them to not 
receive mail?
Eve