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Re: Male sexual enhancement formula^



There are several solutions that I can see:

1)  Have the mailserver reject the first delivery attempt by a non-list
recipient.  (Or, for that matter, the first delivery attempt of *any*
mail.)

2)  Require that someone who is not on the list to respond to an
automatic response.

3) Reject non-subscribed senders.

#1 will probably induce an unacceptable load on the mailserver.
#2 will induce some load, but at the listserv level.
#3 will probably have the least load, but will prevent non-subscribers
from asking questions.

-Ian

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:08 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2005 10:29, Willie McKemie wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:36:07AM -0700, Arabella wrote:
> > > Penis enhancement patch, doctor approved and recommended.
> >
> > Other lists do not have this pervasive spam problem.  Isn't there a
> > solution better than un-subscribing?
> 
> The solution, used by virtually every mail list other than Debian, is to 
> prevent posting from addresses that are not subscribed.  People can get 
> around it, but not as easily as with these wide open Debian lists.
> -- 
> derek
> 
> 



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