[BLDG-SIM] the pic of today :)

[Jason Glazer]

List members, 

I received many suggestions on how to deal with junk mail 
sent to the list.  Overall, most people thought that given 
the small problem that it has been to date, I shouldn't 
take the step to moderate the list.  People had many good 
suggestions for other approaches but most I could not 
implement with my current mailing list software.  

One thing that I have decided to do is require 
authentication when subscribing.  Basically, when 
subscribing people will now get an e-mail asking them to 
reply to the e-mail to subscribe.  It is one way of making 
sure the e-mail address is authentic.  Perhaps this will 
discourage people who send junk e-mails since some of those 
people use faked e-mail addresses.  For the rest of us it 
is one small step that shouldn't be too inconvenient. 

Another thing that a few people brought up is virus 
protection.  We have software that checks every e-mail 
message going in or out of GARD, including to the mailing 
lists, for viruses.  In addition, this program is set up to 
not allow any attachments that are executables (exe, bat, 
vbs, etc..).   The virus prevention library is updated 
automatically several times each everyday.  That said, 
their are no guarantees but we are trying to do a good job.

Now, doesn't anyone have a question about some arcane DOE-2 
keyword?

Jason

On 10 Jul 2001, at 13:33, I wrote:

> Not a virus but simply (rude) junk mail.  The person who
> sent it subscribed to the mailing list, sent the
> advertisement, and unsubscribed all in the span of a few
> minutes.  I can't think of any way to avoid this problem
> other than act as a moderator for the list.  That would be a
> manual approval of all e-mails sent to the list prior to
> them being posted.  I would rather not do that unless it
> becomes more of a problem.  Opinions?
> 
> Jason

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