On Nov 16, 11:46*pm, romeomike wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Had an idea today and thought I'd throw it out here for anyone who
might be interested.

Sounds like you are dedicating a separate email address to this group?
What prevents someone from spamming the group by emailing to it under
different names from different email addresses? Or what prevents
emailing the group with non-aviation related stuff? I probably don't
understand the mechanics completely.

It's probably ME who doesn't understand all the ramifications :-)

It's just floating an idea really. So far we have 4 pilots in a simple
email loop each with a folder holding the addresses of the others.
Email can be answered or sent as desired. We don't have any filters in
use, just a few friends communicating with each other and talking
flying.
I have the same setup with my family emails.
Don't know about spamming. I'm sure it could be done, but I for one
don't get much spam as my ISP filters a lot of it out daily. In fact,
I can honestly say that spam for me anyway isn't an issue any longer.
Can't speak for the other guys but they seem happy with what we're
doing.
The main thing to remember here is that this is in no way anything
"formal".....just friends talking flying without the hassles we have
on the Usenet forums. All of us still remain here, but it's a welcome
option to have when someone wants to tell how their flight went that
day and doesn't necessarily want to be told to go to hell or what an
asshole they are in the process :-))
Dudley