Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts

[Mark Gauvin <MGauvin () dryden ca>]

On list spam has been minimal but off list cold call type emails have  
been mounting for several months

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On 2012-07-30, at 5:29 PM, "Brian Dickson" <brian.peter.dickson () gmail com 
> wrote:

> > As a quick update, we've implemented some list settings last week  
> > to help
> > to
> >
> > keep spam off the list.  New subscribers are moderated until we're
> > comfortable
> > with their posts.  We rejected the idea of keyword based message  
> > filtering
> > since not only is a lot of work to maintain, it's trivial to get  
> > around it
> > if
> > you really want to post banned words.
> > Comments and suggestions are welcome.
> > Matt Griswold, on behalf of the NANOG Communications Committee
> >
> > I've always liked the idea found in xkcd.com/810 ;-).
>
> Brian