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From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: Spamming FreeBSD lists.
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:48:07 -0500
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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?


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