[PLUG] We need to block non-member posts

[Sean Lewis]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dan Haskell wrote:
> The volume of the PLUG list is bad enough without getting a bunch of spam
> too. And it's only going to get worse as the spamhouses sell our address
> to more and more "entrepreneurs".
> The Usenet gateway needs to be shut off until it can be done without
> opening us up to abuse from the whole world.
> 
Agreed. But I'm not waiting for it. The next message out of my stack will 
be to unsubscribe from this list. There are others out there. When I hear 
that this mess has been cleaned up, I'll consider resubscribing. But for 
now, the noise ratio is just too high. [OT] discussions be damned -- it 
never bothered me to hit the "D" key on whatever I didn't want to read, 
but getting SPAM through the list is just too much.

So long,
Sean