Re: META: Can we please restrict the list?
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Aaron Howell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:00:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> > How far do you want to take this? We could say that all we ever see
> > from person x is trash, so they don't belong here either. Bad idea.
> aol, and the free email services, hotmail, juno, etc.
> AOL seems to be a special case, its the single biggest source of junk on the net.
> I realize there are going to be exceptions to the general moronic level of aol subscribers, but
> couldn't they telnet to their accounts on master? (all real developers have these).
> and as for the free email services, just ban the lot of them.
> Since one needs to have real net access to upload a package, one has
> no need for the ability to post from the free (hotmail, juno and friends, services).
> just my 2c worth.
This list is not just for developers - it is for people interested in the
development effort. I'm not a developer (I might become one, someday),
but it was suggested I subscribe here when I started asking questions
about unstable.
I strongly feel that you should never disallow people in that manner.
If you forward full messages (with headers) to abuse@aol.net, they will
lose their accounts. If you are feeling energetic, then try to work out
who their web ISP is, and Cc: to webmaster@ or postmaster@ there...
Jules Bean
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