From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 13:32:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8890615BDF; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA48480; Mon, 10 May 1999 16:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:29:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM In-Reply-To: <036401be9b22$d35b4540$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > 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. The could, but most wouldn't, wouldn't even know how. It wouldn't be a sure cure, but it would sure help. Don't do it on newbies type lists, like -questions or -newbies, even multimedia gets a lot of newbies. Current and committers would be good candidates. > > 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 > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message