[thelist] SPAM

Daniel J. Cody djc at members.evolt.org
Tue Nov 13 12:52:00 CST 2001


The problem with only allowing email address subscribed to thelist post 
is because a majority of the people here aren't subscribed with exactly 
the address they post from. A couple examples:

when i post from my work account, it shows up as djc at starkmedia.com, but 
it actually comes from djc at mail.starkmedia.com

someone at the university of nebraska is subscribed as 
foo at bigred.unl.edu - and their email appears to come from foo at unl.edu

some people subscribe as evolt at domain.com or thelist at domain.com to 
filter email easier but post from joe at domain.com (matt warden and 
spinhead are good examples of this)

forwarding - i have certain procmail recipies for my starkmedia.com 
account set up to forward anything from theforum list(for example) to my 
members.evolt.org account and i reply from my m.e.o account

those are a couple.. It's not so much that I'm dead set against this but 
I tried it about a year and a half ago for a couple days.. We only had 
maybe 800 people on thelist back then and i was manually approving 
40-60% of posts cus they were getting held. When people started noticing 
that replies were comming way out of order and not nearly as 
instantanious as they do now, it seemed a little easier to stomach the 
random spams that come through..

hopefully that clears things up a bit :)

.djc.


Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 07:20 PM 11/13/2001, you wrote:
> 
>> we could close the list so that only subscribers can post
>>
>> i guess it will depend on the volume of crapola
> 
> 
> So why don't we? I don't see any valid reason for allowing spammers in 
> here!
> 
> And what are the benefits, if any, of keeping it open?
> 
> Dan?






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