From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 17:47:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3291F37B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0B1laD56887 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:47:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from maxpower (trilluser@maxpower.lan.27in.tv [10.0.0.250]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0B1lZL56878 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:47:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:48:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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