From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 13:22:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16BC15757; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id PAA10332; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:22:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id PAA10328; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:22:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <036401be9b22$d35b4540$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , "Mark Murray" Cc: Subject: Re: SPAM Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:22:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Murray To: Jonathan M. Bresler Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:17 PM Subject: Re: SPAM >"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: >> with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer >> would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece >> of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the >> time-sequence of email would be lost....we would get some very >> strange threads...could be enteraining. > >Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are >there difficulties that make this impossible? > >> the amount of spam we get is very little. its easy to delte a >> couple messages. i do not believe it is worthwhile ot moderate the >> lists. > >Do you have any stats of "accepted mail" vs "rejected mail" vs SPAM? > >M >-- >Mark Murray >Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message