Peter:

Unfortunately this is necessary because of the need to have the List
totally over-run with commercial (or worse) material - something that
would happen within days if it became known as an easy touch.

The alternative - which is used on e.g. ICOM-L or my own CHDEV-L (Cultural
Heritage and Development ) is to have a List Manager authorising each
posting - something that John Chadwick used to do on Museum-L also, until
this became too much of a burden.

At least with the present arrangement the chances of some spammer posting
something offensive under your name is markedly reduced.

I think that it is possible to set the LISTSERV software to eliminate the
notification of successful distribution (see the MUSEUM-L FAQ file that we
are all periodically asked to save for reference), but I find this quite
useful as sometimes postings do get lost en route for various reasons.

Patrick Boylan

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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Millward, Peter wrote:

> I really enjoy using this LIST as the topics are very much in my field of
> interest but perhaps I do not reply very often. The recent 'batch' of emails
> generated by my simple action of attempting to reply is therefor pretty
> scary.
>
> My reply generated no less than four other emails
>
> my inititial response to the list
>         was followed by
> *       your request to confirm
> *       my OK reply
> *       your acknowledgement of my OK
> *       your confirmation of successful distribution
>
> Is this not a bit heavy handed??

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