Posted by Suan Yong on July 24, 1998 at 07:11:32:
In Reply to: Re: jack vance mailing list posted by Willem on July 24, 1998 at 01:31:22:
It's a dilemma between "accessibility" and "security". If you make the
board/list/whatever too "closed", many potential new participants may be
turned away; too "open", and spammers are inevitable.
I really don't think there is a problem with the status quo: the number
of spam on this board is negligible - it only means more work for Mike
(to whom I'm sure we're all grateful :-). The more common problem seems
to be multiple postings: the BBS software apparently takes a long time
to process requests, and many people (or browsers) take the delay to
mean their post did not make it through the first time.
Suan