Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts

[shrdlu at deaddrop.org (Etaoin Shrdlu)]

On 7/30/2012 12:04 PM, Panashe Flack wrote:
>> As a quick update, we've implemented some list settings last week to help to
>> keep spam off the list.  New subscribers are moderated until we're comfortable
>> with their posts...

> I dislike this change - how long are subscribers considered "new"?

I applaud this change. If I still traveled, I'd show up to the next 
NANOG, and buy the committee a beer. Instead, I send them my thanks.

I run a couple of mailing lists, and every once in a while, someone will 
subscribe and set off my cynicism meter. I hit the moderate button on 
the new account, and sad to say, I've only been wrong to do so once, out 
of the last ten times I did it.

Thanks again.

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Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.