At 05:58 PM 3/8/02 -0500, Andrew G. Malis wrote: >I also completely agree with Randy's point. Posting to IETF lists should be restricted to list participants. The midcom mailing list started out that way but there were some very, very loud complaints from several quarters. Because the whole midcom thing was so contentious to start with I decided to err on the side of openness. Also, one thing that's happening with increasing frequency is that spammers are subscribing bogus addresses to the mailing list, which ups the ante on two fronts: 1) the spam gets through, and 2) I'm getting bounce messages against those addresses. So far the 21st century is not going as well as I'd hoped. Melinda