[ale] Recent influx of spam

[Greg Hankins]

Jay Finch writes:
>	I agree.  Can we ban individual domains from the list, or do we have to
>change this list to a CLOSED list?  (I've always thought it was one..)

It's either open or closed (unless anyone else knows otherwise, the majordomo
here is ancient).

I've tried making the list closed... it didn't work very well.  The filters
aren't very good, and sometimes different hostnames in an address cause the
message to get bounced (subscribed as user at bar.foo.com and posts as
user at baz.foo.com).  People also use many different accounts to post to the
list which creates more problems.

Greg

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