Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:48:56PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:34:45PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote:
> > I feel someone should contact Marco d'Itri who runs the bofh.it
> > gateway, and ask his opinion about automating that small message about
> > the gateway being Read-Only. I am happy to do this (in the next week
> > or two) and get back to the list. How does that sound?
>
> Well, do you want to do it, or should I? It's pretty reasonable to
> assume that the news servers are propagating to each other.
Please go ahead and do it Paul.
There is usually a one-line description of a newsgroup which is
displayed beside one's personal list of subscribed newsgroups. It
gives a very short summary of what the newsgroup is supposed to be
about. If linux.debian.user had the description, "Read-Only. Please
subscribe to mailing-list to post", or some such, this would do the
trick I think. This is maybe what Karsten was referring to when he
mentioned that "newsgroup descriptions" are the proper repository for
such a message. (I just thought of this. I'll ask him in a sec. I
was trying to think what he meant by that.)
Tony
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