bingo. he's already procmail'ed off by anyone who cares. reserve moderation for cases where such doesn't work (eg when the person in question deliberately evades filtering).
i would be much more restrictive/specific. i would leave the list self-moderating except for users who repeatedly violate one of the following: - dominates the list to the extent that others can not use it. and note that, even with all of the folk replying to the pathetic trogs, this is far from the case - posts for-profit commercial use, job ads, ... - sends email bounces and vacation messages to the list or to legitimate posters to the list and, while i dislike html, top posting, ... as much as the next person, they somehow don't strike me as capital crimes. otoh, censorship does. randy -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is widely attributed to Voltaire, but cannot be found in his writings. With good reason. The phrase was invented by a later author as an epitome of his attitude. It appeared in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre. Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, 1967