Re: SPAM (was Wonderful book about God! )

>>>From: Matan Ninio <[email protected]>
>>>Subject: Re: SPAM (was [emacs-bidi] Wonderful book about God! )
>>>
>>>This is annoying and is getter more and more common.  How about making
>>>this a only-members-can-post newsgroup?  or at least appealing some
>>>spam-filtering on the input from non-members?  
>>>

Hi,

I am not sure what spam filtering (if any) is being done by default (but note
that the particular message that annoyed you actually made it through my
usually very good personal filter, at least the first time---nothing is perfect).
I am hesitant about restricting posting to members, because it may create headaches
for persons who may want to post to the list from several email addresses, but
we can certainly do it, if spam becomes a problem.

>>>
>>>I mean, I wouldn't mind, but this list is *so* quite recently, which is
>>>sad enough, and the spam is just adding insult to injury.
>>>

Since the existence of this mailing list is public, it is not too suprising
that it was marked for spam.  I completely agree that it is a sign of a sad, sad
world.

>>>PS, is anything moving in the bidi-front?  Things looked very good about
>>>a year ago, and then suddenly all this quite. :-(
>>>

As far as I know, one still has to be at least a bit of a hacker to get anything done
(as is often the case with extremely nice free software, e.g., Omega).  This will change,
but no one is sure when!

>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Matan Ninio             
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>>>VI VI VI - The Roman Number of The Beast
>>>
>>>