Mark M. writes:
It's extremely trivial to prevent someone from posting to a mailing list. The fact that John Gilmore has not done this probably means that he doesn't want to rather than an inability to do the above.
Short of 1) moderating the list or 2) restricting new subscriptions to the list, it's almost impossible to prevent someone from posting to a mailing list. As soon as you "block" posts from one address, the determined poster can sign up from another address. All it takes is paying money to a few ISPs, or changing his AOL userid. The determined poster could even grab a subscriber list from the lists's mailserver, and send his message to each member individually. -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF