Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:57:08 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Message-ID: <200201072357.g07Nv8e02629@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:06:50 PST." <20020107150110.C5440-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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> I think you've misunderstood--he's not suggesting that anyone has to pay > 100 EURO or any other sum for sending questions to the list, rather, such > questions only need to be confirmed to come from a valid email account > first (ie; TMDA - http://tmda.sourceforge.net), and then let through. > This would eliminate the vast majority of spam, since they usually don't > come from attended mail accounts, and thus can't respond to the > confirmation request. Debian does this (though you also must subscribe before posting). I believe they've actually collected, too. hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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