On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:45 , Norbert Nemec wrote:
Anybody who is subscribed to any of the debian lists is automatically added to one global list of permitted senders. Addresses are never removed fromthere unless they are abused for spam.Now people would not have to subscribe to high-traffic lists to be allowed to post there, but they simply would have to subscribe to some list once and mayeven unsubscribe right afterwards. Anyway, we could make use of the full
Carrying the idea a step further, have someone's first posting to a debian list generate a test message which they have to reply to. Once the reply is received they're added to the whitelist generated from subscriptions. It would probably be necessary to add a blacklist with regexps so that abusers with wild-card addressing wouldn't find it quite as easy to bypass the checks.
Chris