Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:19:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subscribe Message-ID: <200007241819.LAA52237@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <26118.964460582@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 24, 2000 10:43:02 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > But (there is always a "but" ....) I think to make the subscription procedure > > "fool-proof", most of the e-mail addresses in that and similar paragraphs sho > ud > > not be hhtp links but raw text. Only the majordomo@FreeBSD should be kept > > as a http "mailto" link in that page. In that way people won't even have the > > chance to "click" except to the right address: majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > I totally agree. Does somebody on doc want to do this or should I > dive on it? > > In fact, to be honest I think we should just change the referenced > entities in mailing-lists.ent to no longer be marked up with <email> > tags. This is a problem pretty much everywhere we reference a mailing > list and it's the reported cause of more than a few bogus subscribe > messages. > > And yes, I've already heard the idea of having a filter which grabs > those messages and filters/does the right thing with them and I've > heard it more than once. Everybody suggests it, but nobody wants to > wade into our mail-handling scripts and actually implement such a > thing, so let's just fix the problem at the source. :) Umm, actually, Jordan, majordomo has an option to do just that. > - Jordan -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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