> May be a naive question, but can't this list ( and all other FB ones)
> simply be set as 'not moderated' but registered users only ?

They are, but we do not restrict membership.

> That way a moderator would not eat his/hers vluable time while affording
> some level of spam blocking. For those of us who elect tohave a dayli
> digest, there is no way we can get rid of the spam.

When I see a new membership I keep an eye for spam, and try
and kill it before it gets to the digest, but until their
actions are made illegal, there is not a lot more we can do
- short of manually checking every sumission - which would
delay replies by several hours!

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