On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Joshua Bergland wrote:

> While I know that a lot of people only read the archives, wouldn't the 
> easiest way to solve this spam problem make it so you can only put 
> messages onto the list if you are sending from a valid email that is 
> signed up to recieve the list... If this continues, I'm about to sign 
> off the list all together...

That's half the equation.  The other half is to obscure mail addresses in
the archives so that harvesters don't pick them up.  Newer versions of
MHonArc do a pretty good job of this.