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Subject[OFFTOPIC] Re: That spam, and ways to block it (Amazing Breakthrough)
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
> The snafu is that if people use dialup services and then send out
> email directly from their machine (instead of thru their ISP's
> smtp relay), they would become blocked. :-| What a difficult
> choice...

I personally think that it's not a difficult choice at all. Please don't
even consider doing it. At the moment, I post through my ISP's relay, but when
they are having trouble, I deliver direct. Sometimes when I'm using my laptop
on someone else's connection it's quicker to deliver direct than reconfig to
use their gateway.

I know _my_ postings to l-k aren't exactly rocket science, but I'm sure there
are others out there who would be really put out by this. There's also a
security issue -- going through a gateway is a potential point for someone to
read your mail.

Spam is definitely a pain, but taking measures to block it which inconvenience
legitimate users is - in a way - letting the spammers win. I oppose invalid
e-mail addresses in Usenet From: lines for the same reason.

As for not allowing posts from non-subscribers, I don't have a definitive
position, but a couple of points / ideas:

i) we do get a lot of cruft from people reporting bugs days or weeks after
they've been fixed, just because they don't read l-k and therefore haven't
seen the discussion about it.

ii) How about creating a `null' linux-kernel-posters list, which never sends
mails to subscribers, but only subscribers to it can post to l-k? To save
inconveniencing the regulars, the list could be pre-stuffed with people who
have posted over the last N weeks.

--
"Apathy is not the problem, it's the solution"

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