Re: Request to restrict posting permission to debian-devel-announce
On Thu 11 Nov 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> I wonder if it would be useful to turn that list into a moderated
> list where all "team leaders", * engeneers and * managers would
> get post permission while "normal users" won't.
Sounds a bit extreme.
How about not allowing postings with subjects starting with Re: or
variations thereof, and postings that have a "In-Reply-To" or
"References" header. That should suppress most replies; admittedly not
all... Note that the more postings a thread has, the more likely people
are going to respond to it, so preventing most replies should be
sufficient. Combine it with the requirement that the message is signed
by a key on the debian keyring, and it should be pretty secure.
Paul Slootman
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