Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:06:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Anti-SPAM Suggestion... |
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Wakko Warner 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. >> >> Using web forms to POST to linux-kernel? You mean ONLY web based >> access to posting? The volume would drop overnight from probably >> 300 posts/day to 10 posts/day. >> >> Nobody is going to read an email in their mail client, and then >> cut and paste the message into a web form to reply to it. I >> doubt that many people would use the web form to write a message >> in the first place. I would just unsubscribe permanently, and >> consider the list as dismantled. I would put $10000 cash on a >> bet that says most others would leave too. > >I for one would.
You'd leave? Or you'd post via the web? I'm assuming you'd leave. I would too.
Want to know something wonderful about the new "x-linux-kernel" From line? It misses my procmail rule. Now instead of linux-kernel being filtered into a different folder, my damned INBOX contains a motherload of new messages. SIGH!!!!!!
Time to edit .procmailrc....
TTYL
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