From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 27 15: 5:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E22237B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from norton.palomine.net (norton.palomine.net [66.93.48.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4B7C43E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 65523 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Aug 2002 22:05:35 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:05:35 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <20020827220535.GA65374@palomine.net> References: <200208271049.g7RAnrl5019226@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3D6BDB16.2020304@401.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6BDB16.2020304@401.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:03:34PM +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > I have read a lot of replys to this mail, with arguments for and > against a subscriber-only list, and so far I have not seen the > against side come up with one single valid argument. Here's one: whenever I post a message on a public list, I use an expiring address. The address in the From header of this message will work for five days; after that, any mail sent to it will bounce. Every message I post has a different address, depending on when I post it. This allows me to post freely in public places with a real address that people can respond to (for a while) without the risk of being abused by harvesters. This may not be to some people's liking, but the qmail list requires every message sent to it to be confirmed by the sender. This has completely eliminated spam from the list with only a small inconvenience to the users of the list. It avoids the problem of people who post with multiple addresses being unable to post that a subscriber-only list has, and some of the regular list members have automated the job of responding to the confirmation messages so that there's no inconvenience at all. Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message