Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 01:55:07 +0000 (GMT) | From | Shaw Carruthers <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> > But the spam I know has been a big problem. Maybe NNTP servers with > authorisation? (People apply and get user names and passwords?). A right > royal pain in the ass, though. > > Interestingly though, would gating the group to nntp at vger and using > ihave/sendme (or whatever is the 'best' inter-server protocol these days, > I'm out of date) to the exploders have any efficiency wins? Especially if > there was some way postings could go to the local exploder.. Hmm, I'm tired, > that could all be obvious nonsense. I'll shut up! >
Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to linux-kernel can post.
This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers.
Quite a few newsgroups run like this.
-- Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk London SW14 7JW UK This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).
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