On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Colm Buckley wrote:
Speaking as the administrator of a largish list elsewhere, it would be nice if people recognised that automatic detection of spam without manual intervention is by no means a trivial process, and that most mailing-list administrators have enough on their plates as things stand.
Speaking as someone who hosts mailing lists, it's not difficult to restrict posting to list members while still allowing a regex-specified list of addresses to post (say, .*@netapp.com).
Though it may be somewhat more challenging if you're using list software that hasn't seen significant development in almost seven years.
Bryan