Why not a private news server?

[Eric Clark]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, David Cooley wrote:

> I'm on several "private" news servers and they get as much spam as the 
> alt.* groups... every 2nd or 3rd post is spam.
> Onelist does not spam.  Look up the definition of spam.

uhm, every message has advertising of things that I'm not the least bit
interested in.

> >As it is right now spammers would have no problem getting on the list, but
> >we dont really have a problem with it, do we?

> Actually they do... The list requires a VALID email address that can be 
> verified before the subscriber can post.  News servers, Public and private 
> do not.

Thats not at all true.
news servers can require each user to have a unique username and password.

> Wondering if you have a financial interest in the private news server????

I'm wondering if you work for onelist

-Eric