I also think that requiring subscriptions and moderating subscription requests would be preferable to moderating messages. Perhaps as an alternative to full openness the list admin could moderate only messages from non-subscribers and let the on-topic messages pass through. I usually just delete spam but the letters are rapidly fading on my "Delete" key and some spam is pretty ugly stuff so I'd rather not see it at all. Britt Snodgrass > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Jr, William [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:34 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: ADMIN: Spam threshold reached? > > > The list should be closed to non-subscribers. Subscribers should be > moderated. I would not expect that this list gets a great deal of new > subscribers. > > William Dale