[Coco] Please remove from the COCO forum

[Jerry Adams]

So Dennis, how would one accidentally be subscribed to the most awesomely
triumphant retro computing email list in the universe?

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <
bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Fri, August 25, 2017 12:35 pm, David Ladd wrote:
> > I am sure the list moderator can probably fill in how the detection
> system
> > works to determine if you might be a bot/spammer vs a real person when
> > signing up.
>
> Yeah. A pain in the butox. If there's no name attached to start with, it's
> rejected (sub instructions) with a request for their real name. Then I look
> for each name/email combo. If it doesn't appear in a search (and I try a
> couple of them), then it's rejected (sub instructions) with a polite note
> to
> tell me about their CoCo interests to make sure they're not a bot. Nothing
> is
> automatic ... which is why those who hide their name/email combos really
> can
> be an annoying time sink. Worse, though, are nasty responses -- those I
> reject
> even if they are legit because they'll probably be bad-tempered list
> members,
> too.
>
> Dennis
>
>
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