Re: Helpful Hint

**"Christopher P. Lindsey" t*@spamfodder.com**

> I really appreciate the attention  that was paid to my query about the
> gwlphoto site.
> The reason it was confusing to go to the site the day I did so was that
> there were no photos there, only spam.
> So I propose that we garden writers and photographers try to drown out that
> spam by putting up lots more photos! I'll try to put one of mine up in a few
> minutes, a picture I took in Florida of a way to save a live oak.

Hi Betty,

   Nice oak!

   I want to remind everyone that the message quoted below is an older
   one, posted earlier (but approved later) than the one that I sent
   saying that gwlphotos@hort.net won't make any more junk mail visible.

Chris (who will stop cluttering the list with this now)

> >    The problem is that the gwlphotos alias has to be open to the public
> >    to receive messages since it's not hosted on the same server as the
> >    gwlphotos list.  A spam trawler probably picked up the email
> >    address in a web-accessible copy of the GWL list, so it was added
> >    to a master mailing list used for unsolicited bulk email (spam).
> >
> >    We could close the gwlphotos alias off and require moderator approval
> >    for the messages that go to it, but someone would have to volunteer
> >    and already know how to use majordomo with the moderation features
> >    (I just don't have the time to do it right now).
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