Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6texans.net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> > I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here.
> > I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while
> > sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address.
> >
> > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe
> > as a *poster* as Mike.McCarty@NOSPAMsbcglobal.net, while receiving
> > the posts as Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net, which is my real
> > e-mail address. No e-mail would be sent to the alias, which would
> > be used only to permit posting, but would not be subscribed as
> > a recipient.
> >
> > Commentary anyone?
>
> I'd love to be able to do that myself.  It might cut the spam 
> considerably.

Since anybody can post to this list without being subscribed (witness 
the spam we get), where is the problem? You simply subscribe under one 
address and post from another. (And should you have trouble with your 
posts getting a higher spam score since your posting address is not 
subscribed, you can subscribe to debian-whitelist which was created for 
this purpose.)

HTH,
Jacob