Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:47:38 -0400 | From | ben fleis <> | Subject | Re: Anti-SPAM Suggestion... |
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On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 02:27:39PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: > > I know that the objective has always been to keep the list "open post" > > to allow bug reports from the world. So aside from applying a high-speed > > clue stick and dropping the 12 ton Lart rock... why not use web forms > > all over the net which post using a valid address? I'd be willing to > > donate a page and I already have a script and I'd be willing to bet that > > there'd be a few hundred others willing to do the same. The list would > > probably still get a "crap" posting from time to time but it would > > definitely prevent what's happening now.
> A better thing (I think) I was thinking about would be to have it so > that only people on the list could post to it, and posts w/ '[lk]' > in the subject. Then if someone posts w/o being on the list (Or > part of the digest or whatever), and the email doesn't have '[lk]' > in the Subject coming in, it gets bounced back w/ instructions to > plop '[lk]' in the subject and re-submit, and/or it can be forwarded > to some person(s) for manual checking of the message, and they can > resubmit it to the list w/ [lk] in the subject if it looks > reasonable...
your description is slightly confusing to me. Do you mean (1) Either be on the list OR post with [lk], or (2) Be on the list AND post with [lk]?
(1) seems quite reasonable, and retains the desired openness, while (2) is not only closed, but rather annoying for list users (i know that i don't want to type [lk] every time).
my $.02
ben
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