Date: 07 Jan 2002 10:27:30 -0800 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Message-ID: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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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
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