Subject: Change in ForCES List Moderation Policy

From: "Putzolu, David" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:44:46 -0800

All,

Recently the ForCES list has been the recipient
of emails with forged headers transporting viruses.
The previous ForCES list configuration allowed emails
"from:" subscribers to post without any moderation or
filtering.  This resulted the forged emails containing
viruses to be posted to the list.

In order to prevent this from happening, the ForCES
list is now being operated as a "self-moderated"
mailing list.  This means that the following set of
actions will occur whenever a subscriber posts a
message:

1) The alleged (based on From: in mail header) sender 
will receive an automated message from the mailing
list software asking whether they where the actual 
poster of the message.

2) The sender may either click the URL included in
the email, or simply reply with "ok" in the body
of the email

3) Upon clicking the URL or replying with "ok" to
the mailing list software, the mailing list software
will then distribute the original message to the list.

The moderation policy for non-subscriber messages
remains the same:  All messages are forwarded
to the chairs for review.  All such messages are
approved unless they are obviously spam.  

Please feel free to comment or provide suggestions
for alternate list configurations.

Thanks,
David