From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 4 19:28:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28198 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28191 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blasphemy.worldnet.att.net ([207.146.193.76]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA6899 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 02:28:16 +0000 Message-ID: <33961F65.20EA@lexmark.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 22:07:33 -0400 From: Larry Lile Reply-To: lslile@lexmark.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not make the list closed? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Yves Lepage wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Here's an idea: why not make the list closed? So > > that only subscribers can post to it? > > > I agree, I'm tired of receiving commercial proposals > and farm boys asking to see nude "chicks". > > Pedro. > Why not wave a dead chicken when you post to the list, much like posting to alt.sysadmin.recovery. Except it would have to be a different kind of chicken. Have a bot scan for the chicken and reject anything that does not have one. Just make sure that the method is documented in the faq, web pages, etc... It could be something as simple as a token in the subject line to be stripped out by the bot? -- Larry Lile lile@stdio.com