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Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)



Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:24:24AM -0600, Michael Stroucken wrote:
> 
> > 	Given that spammers are increasingly targetting mailing lists,
> > is there an example of a list having effective control measures to combat
> > this?
> 
> The only measure that seems to work is restricting list postings to
> subscribers only.  Unfortunately, this is also a major inconvenience for
> those who use the list legitimately.

  ... unless you find a mailing list manager that can associate many email
  addresses to a single user. Because, the reason why it is open currently
  is that one can subscribe with a given address, the one which receives
  mails, but can write with many others though.

  PS:I would like to see this feature in Sympa I do maintain.

-- 
Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr>
              <jerome@marant.org>

http://marant.org



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