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>        1) We all agree that SPAM is bad in CIPS-L, and as owner of CIPS-L,
>           we authorize you to nuke any off-topic posting you feel
>           like.  If you wish to do this, I can provide you with the
>           appropriate software.  This is known as retroactive moderation.
>SG: It sounds good to me...can we agree to give Mike MacDonald that authority?
>SG: BTW, Mike may not have all that much time for stuff like this.
>SG: If not you Mike, can you 'bless' another volunteer?

Once mail has gone out to the mailing list, I think that it has done
it's damage.  Spams have to be stopped before they are sent out to
the list, unlike newsgroups where one can "forge" Cancel requests and
kill off any offending posts.  I vote against this option.

>        2) We moderate can.org.cips and cips-l.  You reject any off-topic
>           junk.
>SG: That'll work until our dedicated volunteer says "Oh blech, enough is
>SG: is enough" and moves on. Continuity can be difficult to achieve
>SG: It has to high a workload for the benefit involved.

This would be an ideal solution, but I think that going with this
at this stage would be overkill.  Option 4:

>        4) We do (2), and you put filters into the injector that looks
>           for known junk patterns (I have millions of them ;-).
>
>           This has the advantage of not slowing the group down - it's
>           all automatic.

would seem to be the best solution for the immediate term.  It would
require little immediate involvement from a moderator, and it still
leaves open the option of going with a more proactive approach at
a later date.

Adrian.
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