On 5/19/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote: I originally created the email address in order to read the wikilegal-l mailing list. At the time I was using two separate email accounts, one for reading the mailing lists, and another for posting to the mailing lists. This was a pain in the ass, but it was better than the alternative of receiving lots of spam. Then I found out about the gmail feature which allows you to send mail from different email addresses. Problem solved, and now I could abandon my other email account. Except now a new problem was introduced: when a message is crossposted to multiple mailing lists, one must be subscribed under the same email address to all mailing lists or else the post gets moderated. So I had to sign up for all the mailing lists under the same email address. As it turns out I'm actually signed up for some mailing lists under lots of email addresses, I'd basically keep signing up every time the mail bounced. The wikilegal address seems to have propagated to all the mailing lists, or at least most of them. If there was an easy way to get an address unmoderated on *all* the mailing lists at once, I'd have changed it by now, as a small number of people have claimed to be confused by it. So there's the story. Wasn't that interesting to everyone? Anthony