List prescanning, was: Re: Cell Phone

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

--On Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:09 PM +0300 Iiro Nikkila <ini at sci.fi> wrote:

> In my opinion messages sent by NSRCA members are sent directly to the list.
> Messages from other senders are scanned and probably only to avoid spam.

I suppose we've got some kind of anti-virus screening
on the list.  Seems to me that attachments are restricted
in size to avoid transmitting infected material.

I don't think we have spam-filters, except insofar as
posts from addresses that are not on the member list
are thrown in the bit-bucket.

> Nothing wrong with that. I have concluded this because I have received
> automated messages stating that the message will be forwarded to the
> list after checking by moderators if the messages still has value to
> mailing list receivers.

OK.  That's something I haven't experienced.

> That makes a couple of days delay and wipes out the motivation to
> write anything.

That's understandable.

> If I am wrong this will come straight
> through, though.

We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

					Marty #2874
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