[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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