spamarrest (was: Re: "change out a window", "paint out a shelf" (verification)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/20/2006 11:08 AM, you wrote:
>(Sent to Steve Prindle with copy to ADSL)

Boot him off ADS-L if it happens again.

Joel

>After posting to ADSL on "change out a window, paint out a shelf", I got the
>appended e-mail. I went through the Web procedure this time.
>
>But I don't have the time to do this generally. I sympathize with your
>wanting to stop spam, and I don't blame you for using this service. But
>using it on this mailing list means that everyone who posts to the list has
>to run this gauntlet for you,* and if they don't, you won't see their posts
>to the list.
>
>Granted, you probably didn't expect this consequence of combining the Spam
>Arrest service with subscribing to the mailing list, but that's what
>happens. Instead of imposing on everyone who posts to the list, I suggest
>that you either configure the service to accept everything posted to ADSL ,
>or change your subscription to digest format and just tell the service to
>accept everything from American Dialect Society discussion list
><ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>.
>
>And after doing that once and writing this letter, I'm going to ignore any
>further spam service requests from anybody resulting from posts to any
>mailing lists.
>
>  *(and again for anyone else who uses this service)
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
>[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
>
>
>On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Steve Prindle wrote:
>
>#Greetings -
>#
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