Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:48:07 -0500 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Message-ID: <OGEFLCDDBCNNBEFGIFEFIEJNCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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All monetary discussions aside. Forcing non-subscribed members to verify the authenticity of their email address before posting would reduce a good amount of spam without adding much overhead/annoyance. I just ran into this wonderful invention posting to the php-general mailing list @ php.net. However they do it, it must cache addresses that have been authenticated because my follow-up posts went right through. Adding a warning message that incurred fines for spam, would be very cool if it was enforcible. Provided it was worded in such a way as to not scare off newbie's. --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken McGlothlen > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:28 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Spamming FreeBSD lists. > > > Just tossing this out there for comment. > > I'm not suggesting in the slightest that the freebsd.org lists > should only be > open to subscribers. But is there a way that non-subscribers can be > challenged? In other words, when a non-subscriber sends a message to > questions@freebsd.org, the message goes into a queue, and an > automated response > is sent to them saying, "Your message has been received; in order > to pass it > along to the all-volunteer subscribers behind > questions@freebsd.org, please > reply to this message. Note that if your message is an unsolicited > advertisement, freebsd.org will bill you or your company $100 per > subscriber, > payable net-30. Currently, there are 1500 [or whatever] subscribers." > > Okay, maybe not the last sentence (though I wish...). Once a reply was > received, the message would be passed on to the list normally. > > It seems to me that this might be one extra hoop for nonsubscribers, but > nothing too incomprehensible or onerous, and it would profoundly > reduce the > amount of spam. > > Good idea? Bad idea? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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