Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:31:10 +0000 | | From | Steve Dodd <> | | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Re: That spam, and ways to block it (Amazing Breakthrough) |
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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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