On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:43:37AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > How about changing the automatic response, in the case of the aol domain, > to ask the subscriber to send a message saying why he wants to be on the > list. This should not contain any reference to the web-site, so that someone > who is trawling lists will not know what the mailing list is about. It > should say something like: > > "You have asked to be subscribed to the debian-xxx mailing list. > This list has been troubled with spam messages from users in your > domain, and so we are asking you to explain why you want to be > subscribed to this list. > > If you respond to this message and are accepted as a subscriber, > you must undertake not to post any messages unrelated to the > mailing list's purpose. Please indicate in your response that > you agree to this." We had such an automatic mechanism 1-2 years ago and it was a real pain for many people. Poeple like me who use several different addresses and write a lot of mail. As long as spam is restricted to ~5 mails per day - that's what we have atm, I believe that our actual policy isn't to unrestrictive. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! /
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