Re: SPAM vs. open list
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:59:50PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:27:17 +0000
> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
> Julian>
> Julian> Ean Schuessler wrote:
> >> (At the very least we could write a script that sends non-subscribers
> >> back a usage agreement and holds their mail until they send back an
> >> affirmation to our usage policy. This would help us from a legal
> >> perspective as well.)
> Julian>
> Julian> Suggestion: "non-subscribers" should be "email addresses which are not
> Julian> subscribed to *ANY* Debian list". That might well reduce the number
> Julian> of unrecognised emails on lists such as -devel.
>
> May be it will be better just to set something like X-non-subscriber:
> header?
>
> I, and possibly many others, write to mailing lists not from the email
> address I am subscribed from.
So would I write the following?
From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> <--- not my subscription email
X-non-subscriber: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk> <--- sub. email
Sounds like a sensible idea which might reduce the amount of false
rejections. Also, GPG-signed emails which have a developer key could
be accepted, or maybe any GPG-signed emails with valid signatures
could be accepted: I've never seen a signed spam.
Julian
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