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SubjectRe: Anti-SPAM Suggestion...
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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