On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:56, Juha Jäykkä wrote: > It seems we have an agreement on not closing the list to subscribers > only as a measure against spam. Spam is irritating, how ever and I would > guess the amount of non-subscriber postings is quite low, so this makes me > think of an alternative solution: Why not moderate the postings of > non-subscribers? It would be easy to stop the spams at moderators and let > valid mails through. There is an alternative in between an open list and a subscribed list, that I quite like. I am intending to use this at out company, when I find the time :( http://software.libertine.org/tmda/ is Tagged Message Delivery Agent. The gist is that the first time you send email to the receiveing SMTP server is generates a request, which it sends to you, asking if you are really sure you wish to submit this email to the server. The sender then has to reply including a tag. Is it viable to implement this on lists.debian.org? -- Lars Bahner, http://lars.bahner.com/ Nihil est sine ratione cur potius sit, quam non sit.
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