Re: spam and debian-curiosa
2002-01-22 18:33:55 +0100, Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> wrote:
> In fact, about the only spam I get nowadays comes from the Debian
> lists. It's very irritating. I really think the lists only should
> accept messages from the members registered with it, if any mail from
> non-members is received, it is put on hold and the list owner has to
> approve it.
>
> Is there any good reasons why the Debian lists has to accept messages
> from non-members?
On 2002-01-22 17:44 skrev Adam Olsen answered:
> It gets posts from non-members, that's why.
>
> Debian[0] won't accept any solution that involves censoring users.
I do appreciate this attidude, and I totally agree. Openness is very
important. But this is not censoring. Everybody is free to receive
messages from the list, but to post to it, they should have to register
an email address which has to be present in the "From:" field. After
all, those spammers have thousands of addresses they send mail to, and
most of them don't want to spend time registering on many mailing
lists. This single step would eliminate these spammers. Not to mention
we then know where the spam came from, so we know where to turn to if
someone tries something like that.
Mvh
Øyvind
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