From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 06:34:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA15678 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 06:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from blue.bad.bris.ac.uk (blue.bad.bris.ac.uk [137.222.132.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA15507 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 06:30:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 16962 invoked by uid 57242); 28 Nov 1997 14:30:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:29:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Treharne Reply-To: felix@royal.net To: John Kelly cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porn SPAM In-Reply-To: <3481f768.5825070@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:31:29 -0800 (PST), "Jonathan M. Bresler" > wrote: > >> Livingston (the Portmaster people) changed their mailing list rules to > >> stop spam -- you cannot post from any email address which is not > >> subscribed to the list. > > one of the purposes of the lists is to serve as a source of > > quick answers to people. this is particularly true of > > freebsd-questions. > OK, well then how about leaving -questions open and restricting the > others. Surely that would be appropriate for -hackers and such. Or maybe even self-certification? We run a local newsgroup that rejects any posts that do not have an X-certified-by: header in it. The value of the header doesn't matter in our group, the whole point is if people don't know how to post to this group - they sholdn't be posting! :) Maybe this is a little technical for -questions, but for the others...? Just a thought. - -Taff. Aled Treharne felix@royal.net "Big Bird meets Salvador Dali has been brought to you by the numbers L and ), and by the letter 3." For PGP Public key finger taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk #include(std.disclaim) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNH7VasaJukNO1flNAQHh+AQAhg0kqQ1bTFSKAuaSd5fck150hs8FPO0n KbDx3Yn2sfoP5jj1Fd0rhnjhvsWiDsgNpAZp8TX9lIb2KOeTmuKQMnaLJHnBUHUi nf+HemoAnzPcF193xbeTwa7XTW50Q/AKxvfF46h3jFOCv/14PpEIJBYhJ3bJnEs2 n4Kd+ztpv10= =vitF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----