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

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Thom LaCosta wrote:

> 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.
>

The listserver at qth.net is Mailman, which does require confirmation.

Bob, N7XY