Re: in case you missed this from ponik
Bad idea!
There are thousand web mail services out there. And with any normal mail
service you can play with headers.
Do you really want me to change my email habits?
Cheers.
--- Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> escribió: > Oleg wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > c) detect "lameness" like Slashcode sites, and Google Groups (identical
> > repeated messages, malformatted messages, etc.)
> >
> > Just my $.02
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> >
> >
>
> I've always been a big fan of banning web-based email addresses from
> the lists, all of them. With the web-based email addresses
> (hotmail, yahoo, et al) it's way too easy for someone to really
> abuse the system in so many ways by setting up alias'.
>
> Politically, it can be very damaging.
>
> In a local User Group, we had a political elections process get
> derailed because the same person was making motions and seconding
> them on the email lists and then started real lawsuits against the
> administrator when he, the administrator, started trying to clean
> out the malicious email accounts.
> It was a real mess. The email Admin quit overnight, the a$$ got
> banned and nearly beaten, and the User Group is in a shambles as a
> result of all this.
>
> Say, now that I think of it... Is there some easy was to use some
> kind of intelligent filtering process that could handle removing
> some of these web-centric email accounts? I'm not very good with
> email...
>
>
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