Re: News group

Graeme Wood wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Laurent Verhoest wrote:
>
>
> > If not, why not turning it into a newsgroup, in addition to the
> > mailing list, so that people who don't have access to NNTP but SMTP can
> > still debate ? Something like comp.proxy.squid or simplier comp.squid.
>
> Oh please don't! This list is largely SPAM free and I would very much like
> it to remain that way. One sure-fired way of getting SPAM into a mailing
> list is by gatewaying it into a newsgroup.

What about a newsgroup with a moderator ? What prevents me from spamming the
list with a fake address (a hotmail or so)

--
Laurent