Re: Happy Holidays and a New Year's Proposal; Response

From: J. Paul Robinson (jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 16:39:47 EST 


>From J. Paul Robinson, Purdue Server
I am responding to this quickly so as not to generate a vast number of emails on the subject.

The Purdue email list is a monitored list. That means that we "monitor" all the messages....SPAM just can't get through. (Well I suppose it could, but it would be hard). We do this to protect the quality of our list, and to save you worry that you will get trash. It is time consuming and costly to maintain this policy.

Monitoring is NOT done by 99% of other discussion groups. They may use antispam software (as we do as well) but they don't monitor. 

We have constantly requested that people put quality subject headings in messages. Without proper subject headings, a message is in danger of being instantly deleted and so it should be probably be. 

You should know that the "to:" line in all messages from the Cytometry list contains the message: 
To: Cytometry Mailing List 

thus you can presort your emails to move all these to the PURDUE mailbox or something similar.

This is a more universal solution to trying to force people to manually enter a specific subject title - which by the way, will create difficulties in sorting by subject if they are all the same.

Best wishes
J.PauL Robinson
Purdue University Cytometry Email List

On 24 Dec 2003 at 8:33, Beverly Barton wrote:

>First let me wish everyone the best for the holiday season.
>
>Now I'd like to propose that we have a name for our group in the subject 
>line, for example
>
>Subject:    Purdue Flow List: then whatever topic you are posting on
>
>The reason to include a name in the subject line is to cut down on 
>spam--no name int he subject line, then you know it is spam and just 
>chuck it out.  I don't know everyone on the list, and sometimes the 
>subject heading is vague, and sometimes spam headings look like 
>something legit!
>
> So Paul and the rest in charge, what do you think?  The other e-mail 
>groups I belong to insist on a name in the subject line, or the message 
>does not post to the group.
>
>I'm sure someone can come up with a clever and easy to remember name for 
>this important group.
>Now back to the partying (right, I've got caspase assays to run!).
>
>Best,
>Beverly
>
>Beverly E. Barton, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Surgery/Division of Urology
>UMD-New Jersey Medical School
>185 S. Orange Avenue MSB G-519
>Newark, NJ 07103
>USA
>
>973-972-0662 phone
>973-972-3892 facsimile
>bartonbe@umdnj.edu e-mail
>
>


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