It is still moderated. If it wasn't, you would see about 10X more spam than you currently do. But spammers are clever and some of them have found some ways past our defenses. The messages that I have seen have been infrequent. But I did see about 6 from last month, which is 6 more than I want to see, but still not nearly as bad as it could be. If you have any information about how these guys are spamming us then please send me an email. Marc Atro Tossavainen wrote: > Some time back, the Bioconductor list used to be moderated (as in, > non-subscribers could not post). > > Is this no longer the case? There have recently been several messages > that clearly could not have been sent by a subscriber. What is the > explanation? >