[17407] in APO-L
Re: WHAT THE ?????Re: xxx
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas W. Strong Jr.)
Fri Oct 24 10:16:25 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:14:21 -0400
Reply-To: "Thomas W. Strong Jr." <strong@DEMENTIA.ORG>
From: "Thomas W. Strong Jr." <strong@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199710240507.BAA02718@alycia.dementia.org>
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, R. Meeks wrote:
> Ok, this here is a little disturbing. Now, Yes I'm a Right Wing
> Conservative Republican, but this is totally disturbing to find in my
> email box. Can't we find some way to monitor the things that are posted
> to the group. We could make the message pass a test with word search
> program that could require a review by list message reviewers. That could
> help us keep trash like this off of our list.
I asked about the same thing a while ago, and was told that the list
allows absolutely anyone to post (list member or not) and that it was an
intentional decision to make it that way. I don't like the garbage that
generates either, but all we can do is complain to the site administrators
for every post that shows up.
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