Re: in case you missed this from ponik
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
>> 1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user. 2) Set it to
>> forward to random_user@somewhere.com 3) Leave
>>
>> No list managemenent system can protect against this.
>
> I don't know what the state of the art of list management software is,
> but it must be possible to
>
> a) limit the number of messages from any user to say 50 a day;
>
> b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if ponik@prover.sk
> wasn't subscribed, how could he post?
this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup to
contribute
> c) detect "lameness" like Slashcode sites, and Google Groups (identical
> repeated messages, malformatted messages, etc.)
I agree with the rest of your arguments. By the way, are ponik's (and
other spam) messages going to be removed from the archives?
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