[Seattle-editorial] Too much spam here -way to much

[Jeremy Kahn]

Joseph, et al. --

I changed this list to be members-only for the time being. See the 
attached message, which for some reason never reached the list:

>Message-ID: <3E888907.6080303 at fifthhorseman.net>
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:29:27 -0800
>From: Jeremy Kahn <jgk at fifthhorseman.net>
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>Subject: (temporary) changes to seattle-editorial
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>Due to the extraordinary volume of spam to this list, I am changing its 
>settings to hold any posts from non-members. I will do my best as the 
>admin to keep up with allowing serious posts through, but this should 
>drastically reduce the spam volume.
>
>If anyone has a problem with this change in policy, please let me know. 
>I'm willing to change it back asap if anyone objects.
>
>For those of you who have recently unsubscribed due to the spam, please 
>consider that you might resubscribe.
>
>Once again, I apologize for the headaches. I thought that this problem 
>would be resolved quickly by the tech and lists teams, and so I didn't 
>make this change sooner. Please believe that I will be more proactive on 
>these grounds in the future.
>
>--jeremy
>



Joseph wrote:

>To the members of the Seattle Editorial Collective:
>There is too much spam on this list.. Please work to eliminate the spam by
>using the successful methods used to keep other indymedia lists spam-free,
>or al least spam -less. I'll switch to a daily digest form of delivery for a
>while, as I know it takes a long time to make any major changes at
>indymedia. That this be done quickly is important however, as the signal to
>noise ratio limits the ability of good people to work with us, and makes the
>high quality our work more difficult to sustain.
>Thanks, and in solidarity,
>Joseph
>
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