[Air-l] auto-rejection

[elijah wright]

> due to the large number of spam and virus's that we receive on the list
> which require moderation, i have turned on an auto-rejection for posts
> of unsubscribed addresses.  this is currently experimental, i want to
> see whether it is tenable for a list like ours.  let me know if you run
> into problems.

this is what i do for lists i run, too.  one of those has over a thousand
subscribers.  every week or so i will have to send *one* user a note that
says "you have to subscribe to the list before you can post" - this is
*way* better than what happens otherwise.

NOT doing things this way (i.e. not auto-rejecting posts from people who
aren't subscribed) can eat up so much of a moderator's time as to be very,
very impractical.

i think this is a good change, jeremy, if only because it takes some load
off of you.  it is the humane thing to do :)

elijah