Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:10:12 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've Been Removed! Message-ID: <200205061010.g46AACoI036004@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> ; from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> "Sun, 05 May 2002 17:13:34 PDT." References: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com>
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> I think the lists should remain open. A perfect solution would be > to have the mail system keep a database of originators (From: and > the first Received: header). Whenever it sees an email from someone > not in the database it would request that the person acknowledge > that they really intended to send the email and, if they do, their > email goes through and they are added to the database (so it only > asks them once). How does that differ from subscription+autodeleting-list-content? > I've been contemplating writing such a beast for myself, since 90% > of the email I receive these days is spam. I'm sure others have > written similar things so I'm wondering if there is a solution out > there already. At some point I'm going to write mine (as a standalone > MX relay so it could be tied into any system), when I have more time > available. Existing mailing list managers can already do this. It effectively makes it easy to join the list, but not receive the list contents. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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