Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:51:17 -0500 From: Ciro <geminidominoubermensch@yahoo.com> To: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020111054412.00a90cf0@pop.mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <OGEFLCDDBCNNBEFGIFEFIEJNCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> References: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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At 20:48 2002/01/10 -0500, C J Michaels wrote: >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'm surprised my messages appear on the list, since I never seem to get them back. Or maybe the listserver is set up to do it that way. I am subscribed too. But thats OT. Here's the question, though. How long do we give Joe Random to authenticate their email before branding it as unclaimed and deleting it? If you make it too short, he may be on his way to /dev/null before the gets back to his computer to reply, and if you make it too long... well then, /queuedmail better be one big honkin' filesystem. :) >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. How about "If you do not comply, we will burn your villages and make slaves of your children!" I always thought that had a nice,fuzzy, PC type of feel to it? :) -Ciro the Hun, Up waaaaaaay past his bedtime. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; mQCNBDw+u60BBADyttivZCzUvYzGpzAI73N2rC/ragn9GvcYaq7/MIaa22LQhiDH Qign8lPJNd1ruyA7bc5SOMzaBUDBaqKBo6Da5XYlMOEKOf5zP04PDGR05/PbL4U+ dLe1uuYVlYO6rAaH3wwd6VnKwtFrxs25jgCpYE+SdG74/bfCxjJPMavepQARAQAB tC9DaXJvIE1haWV0dGEgPGdlbWluaWRvbWlub3ViZXJtZW5zY2hAeWFob28uY29t PokArgQQAQIAGAUCPD67rQgLAwkIBwIBCgIZAQUbAwAAAAAKCRBAl98iLB9WBuVj BADgecH3O/3t+RjUPNs785+YTGi+lfXjxkw3lm4Bj7QW6Sv4SiexxMEjKKSwJiny OIZryKNQVU9LCPJYnxuyDKOQQ2yKrZOFOhPgsW552n1QRll1QXKeGi3IA2e8T5BC jqqTpLz2SRtLqrxx04pyaAkCQjEjruKctStMMVv0q5PeebkAjQQ8PruuAQQArPgB nEH7ABWanzNFRpDi9YIe6fb2bEuDZ19TbT9pU7aSDgr3g+lA218+oNyldvwbByla Dk2UpRPdPRYanDnfPt/NJjfcjFObwJqnNmDd08GKGNIuJ/PNPShUHV3Ku0+bcDeW stOq6q8xIeGdVYgIWD5yJEfpwAdryf/5cKwt4ckAEQEAAYkAogQYAQIADAUCPD67 rgUbDAAAAAAKCRBAl98iLB9WBkqxBAChwrVBToKoG1PiCxp0eKgIzlE50I7yNizv FfAfDlm+hSSjYH0dil/2NQta829I3cGNSgwBu2c9MA6ZIriVXlfQWqTF0Xb8IzIM b3m+cMmRr0E127JWXL5oNcjtUaT2FPXe23akDKdEwlmplrJUphp/7dFkOCre7uHF onGXkqt1xw== =enJ9 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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