Re: clueless people on debian-user
On 12 Dec 1997 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
> I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
> and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
Ummm, I guess we could:
- shut down the news gateway, and restrict posts to debian-user to those
who are subscribed to it, and make subscription a little tricky
(confirmation via a reply that requires the user to jump through a small
hoop -- in effect an intelligence test, although one easy enough for small
children, pets, etc. to complete, but not the majority of AOL users... ;)
or, we could:
- live with it, and/or filter incoming messages appropriately with
procmail (filtering messages which match the expression (????|!!!!) is
interestingly effective, I find).
I favor the second option, I think. For those occasional stupid/misplaced
messages, the 'D' key works quite nicely.
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