Re: (fwd/verbatim) [sci.bio.food-science] Welcome - Read this

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Andrew A Gill (fruadman_trumpet_fanfare1@juno.com)
Fri, 22 May 1998 16:14:12 -0400


On Fri, 22 May 98 08:08:55 -0400 faqmail@paleo.org (Edward Reid) writes:
>Omer Zak writes:
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>> Can anything be done about someone who made an honest mistake and
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>Yes. Forgive.

Hear hear! Haven't we all been newbies at one point? While this may not
be a newbie problem, it certainly suggests that he who has never made a
deliberate mistake should cast the first abuse message.

>I could see filtering mailing list submissions for size, and
>trapping anything over 10K for list-owner approval. That
>would be far more effective than trying to stop it at the
>source. This list has already been remarkably free of such
>problems.

Why not moderate the whole list? If you had rather lax policies, you
could just use the moderation to eliminate SPAM, and any occasional
incidental binaries/massive files.

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