[Sysadmin] FW: Admin: Re: [thelist] Can we institute a temporary spam filter?

[John Handelaar]

Joel D Canfield wrote:
>>>Something that catches any email with words like "vote", "elections",
>>>"President" or any of its derivates and holds it for 
>>
>>administrative review? 
> 
> 
> I think it's a terrible idea for a half-dozen reasons.
> 
> Let's not treat the listees like crawling babies who need the house
> 'baby proofed.' I think professional reminders to a group of
> professionals should suffice.

Heh.

Well, I'm not opposed to it in principle.  I just don't think 
it'd work other than on an annoying (to me) incremental basis. 
I've held out the option of doing it though - and TBH, unlike the 
one Joel mentions above, I think this topic *is* different since 
I'd bet it's more likely to escalate into an all-out flamefest if 
we let it start in a way not many things can.

I mention "annoying to me" since I *think* I'm the only one of us 
who's actually gone in and done this in the 2 years since djc 
left - and then only twice, which isn't at all bad.  I distinctly 
recall Dan setting the entire list to manual-approve once.  But 
that was about 5 years back.

jh