At 09:46 15/10/02 -0400, Steve Albert wrote (in part):

>If we can control the spam by rules on the listserv software, great -- but >I think that will prove difficult to do without filtering software, since >spam can come as plain text, too.

A lot of it can be quite easily filtered; a pretty high proportion of the spam coming via SAS-L gets caught by my local (very simple) filtering. Until fairly recently, the LISTSERV anti-spam measures were doing very well, making SAS-L far more spam-free than many other lists. Has something changed? Joe, is it perhaps time for a LISTSERV upgrade?

>A month or two ago I suggested that we needed some volunteer moderators; >.....

Moderating SAS-L posts in the way you suggest would not be too arduous, although I don't know how easy it is to implement technically. However, what about the mirrored newsgroup, which is responsible for a substantial proportion of SAS-L traffic. Would you moderate the newsgroup postings (who 'runs it', and who has authority to moderate?), moderate what is coming across through the 'mirror', or what?

Kind Regards John

John

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