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Date:         Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:19:00 -0500
Reply-To:     MICHAEL CLANTON <MICHAEL.CLANTON@USDA.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         MICHAEL CLANTON <MICHAEL.CLANTON@USDA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: SPAM forcing unsubscription
Comments: To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU

Some of the other listservers force subscription before allowing a post . . .

seems to cut down on the SPAM on those . . . .

>>> SAS(r) Discussion 3/31/03 10:59:29 AM >>> There's a problem with the spam on the list that some of you may not have considered: a lot of it is pornographic, and violates many companies' policies about sexual harassment and/or appropriate use of computer equipment. This weekend one of the digests was so bad that IT management has asked me to unsubscribe. (The system scores incoming e-mail for inappropriate content; anything over 30 gets blocked. They'd never seen anything over 80 before, until this digest, which scored nearly 200.)

Yes, I can continue to post via the web -- but I can no longer get e-mails or digests at work, making it much harder to contribute in a timely fashion. I'm sure my company is not the only one with such policies, and from what I can tell these policies are becoming more and more common.

Joe Kelley, are you out there? HELP!

Steve Albert Director of Biostatistics Spectrum Pharmaceutical Research San Antonio, TX SAlbert at spectrumcro dot com


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