[Elecraft] Re: Spam filters WAS "We are not talking about a small amount of money"

[Thom LaCosta]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:

> The spam filtering is applied at our Elecraft list host, qth.net, and is not 
> under our control.
>
> It is absolutely needed. Without it we have had literally hundreds of 
> spammers 'subscribe' to the list and attempt to post. We still see the 
> attempts here daily.

Wow....they don't have a subscribe option that requires confirmation?  That 
eliminates a lot of spammers....but then again, some one has to read the 
messages for the sign ups that fail.

Thom,EIEIO
Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer
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