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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Folks,

A couple of the lists we run are starting to see a lot of spam. These 
are private lists, set to moderate-non-members -- so the effect is 
moderators get a lot of spam to deal with.

One option is to simply make the lists completely private - but some of 
these are for boards and committees - so having a moderated inbox is 
important.

As I was pouring through the myriad of settings for send/receive 
privileges, I came across confirm-for-non-members -- which might help, 
depending on how intelligent the spambots are.  But it got me to 
thinking that confirm-then-moderate might be a more effective model.  
But.. that's not a current option.

Any thoughts on whether this might work well, and if so, what a scenario 
might look like to implement it?

Thanks very much,

Miles Fidelman

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