I want to express my great appreciation for John Chadwick's excellent work
in managing this list.  His participation clearly contributes much to its
smooth functioning, and I personally will be glad to have him back.
Thanks, John!  -- Pam


>Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:33:47 +0000
>From: Boylan P <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: TEMPORARY MUSEUM-L SPAM PROBLEMS
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>Comments: To: Jocelyn Boor <[log in to unmask]>
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>On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Jocelyn Boor wrote:
>
>>         Is this list moderated, or an advertising free-for-all?
>>
>>         Jocelyn Boor
>
>===============================
>
>Museum-L is normally very well managed and fully moderated to eliminate
>spams.  However - as per at least 4 notices over the past 6 weeks or so -
>John Chadwick is moving jobs and the list had had to be made unmoderated
>for 2/3 weeks. If this is a problem you could always set Museum-l to
>NOMAIL temporarily and follow the discussion (and spams) on the web
>archive instead for the duration and then use to SET MAIL command to
>re-start normal deliveries when John is back in the hot seat.
>
>Patrick Boylan
>
>P.S. As a list manager myself can I say that the spamming problems of the
>past few days shows just how hard John works for us when Museum-L is
>running normally.
>
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  Pamela E. Endzweig
  Staff Archaeologist/Collections Manager
  Oregon State Museum of Anthropology/UO Museum of Natural History
  1224 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1224  USA
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