From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 2:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 579DA37B400 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 02:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 92675 invoked by uid 1000); 6 May 2002 09:52:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 11:52:35 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Jens Rehsack Cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who should/could send mail to this list ... Message-ID: <20020506115235.D91849@mail.webmonster.de> References: <3CD647C1.820E9321@liwing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CD647C1.820E9321@liwing.de>; from rehsack@liwing.de on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:07:13AM +0200 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer X-Work-URL: http://www.ngenn.net/ X-Work-Address: nGENn GmbH, Schloss Kransberg, D-61250 Usingen-Kransberg, Germany X-Work-Phone: +49-6081-682-304 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 --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jens Rehsack(rehsack@liwing.de)@2002.05.06 11:07:13 +0000: > Hi, >=20 > I've seen last how php.net handles that. Anyone who sends a message > first must authenticate it's request be responding an auth-request > from the list-server. This is a similar auth-req. like I got it > from majordomo@freebsd.org, but it's required without need to be > subscribed ... >=20 > I think this could be a good way to avoid spam. this is dependent on list server software and/or addition software running on the mail server distributing the lists. regardless of a list being generally open or subscriber-post-only, it is not an easy thing to implement on high-volume list servers. "plugging in" tmda or similar software imposes a heavy load, for it being invoked for every single message coming in. not knowing where the main discussion goes, i left this mail cross-posted. regards, /k --=20 > Black holes are where GOD is dividing by zero WebMonster Community Project -- Next Generation Networks GmbH -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 My mail is GnuPG signed -- Unsigned ones are bogus -- http://www.gnupg.org/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE81lJjs5Nr9N7JSKYRAixZAJ4p453Sq94PxhVGIJoD1bxpGZh6ZgCfZCSs vwmIEYvYIp0Po7CogCDIZuw= =YcFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message