From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 15:57:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac12.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBAC37B404 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:57:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g07Nv8e02629; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:57:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200201072357.g07Nv8e02629@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:06:50 PST." <20020107150110.C5440-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:57:08 -0500 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 > 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