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Phil Reynolds wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:29:13 +0100
> Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This mailing list produces almost all of the spam I receive. Is there
>> any plan to reduce the spam?
>
> The list is open for posting to by non-members. There are reasons for
> this, but this also means it is open to spam. Annoying, but nothing
> that can really be done about it.

One possibility is to use Gmane and a newsreader to access the mailing
list.  That's what I do, and I have no problem at all with spam.

-- 
Will