Re: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)
"Seth Goodman" <sethg@GoodmanAssociates.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:44 PM -0500, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> wrote:
>
> > I don't think that closing mailing lists is the right way to fight
> against spam.
>
> The question is whether requiring a user to answer one confirmation
> message before posting is any real burden. You have to send mail to
> post, so is it really a burden to first confirm your email address?
> Isn't it worth one confirmation message to be able to ban an address
> that spams?
>
> --
> Seth Goodman
Looking at how many people aren't able to unsubscribe ... And please
also don't forget the huge amount of traffic from this list. One can
get quickly overwhelmed by that. It's not nice to require *everybody*
to receive 100-150 mails/day just for a simple answer.
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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