From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 10:28:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13EE437B449 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5BC091B9D25; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:27:30 -0800 (PST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spamming FreeBSD lists. From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 07 Jan 2002 10:27:30 -0800 Message-ID: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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