Jeroen Van Aart wrote: > > I see one of the main reasons spam emails actually make it to the list > is the policy of allowing non subscribers to email the list. I find this > policy, even though it's commendable, not something suited for this day > and age of email abuse. [...] > A mailing list that only allows subscribers to send and receive email > is not closed. Anyone is still allowed to subscribe. It does not in my > opinion mean you're dictating anything. It just means you take email > abuse seriously and try your best to prevent spam from reaching > people. I think of spammers like terrorist, abusing the internet. If defending from them makes the internet less free then they won. > If preventing non subscribers from sending email is too big of a step > you can always automatically moderate emails from non subscribers and > only then release the emails when they're found to not be spam. This is not doable as the amount of spam is too big for humans to moderate. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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