IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - List changes - Hopefully no more spam!

Hi, After the recent spam episode and Bruce Lane's frustrated outburst, I have changed the configuration of the CLASSICCMP list. Non-subscribers may no longer send messages. Luckily, when a non-subscriber sends a message, it is returned to them with insturctions about how to subscribe. It is also sent to me. That solves the problem of legitimate non-subscriber messages that I was worried about. In a few cases I will probably agree to forward messages without making people subscribe. There is also a "feature" of the software (I use the term loosely, as with a lot of the other "features") that saves non-subscriber messages, or maybe hashes them and then saves them. If the same message is sent more than once, it simply disappears with no errors. This happens even if the non-subscriber subscribes and then sends the message again. I don't know if it happens if the non-subscriber sends the same message from a different address. The solution (which is explained in the automated reply) is to change the contents of the message and then send it again. Although that is a cute spam-preventing feature, I will probably end up sending reminders to the legitimate non-subscribers so they don't get confused when their messages vanish. I discovered that five people who post here often weren't actually subscribed. I already replied to them personally and apologized for the confusion. Hopefully I'll get fewer bounces after they subscribe. Unfortunately, the requirement that each person must use a specific address is going to become even more annoying; messages from alternate addresses slipped through before, but now they will be rejected. Let me know if you have any other questions. -- Derek