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    SubjectRe: Anti-SPAM Suggestion...
    On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Wakko Warner wrote:

    >> >I know that the objective has always been to keep the list
    >> >"open post" to allow bug reports from the world. So aside from
    >> >applying a high-speed clue stick and dropping the 12 ton Lart
    >> >rock... why not use web forms all over the net which post using
    >> >a valid address? I'd be willing to donate a page and I already
    >> >have a script and I'd be willing to bet that there'd be a few
    >> >hundred others willing to do the same. The list would probably
    >> >still get a "crap" posting from time to time but it would
    >> >definitely prevent what's happening now.
    >>
    >> Using web forms to POST to linux-kernel? You mean ONLY web based
    >> access to posting? The volume would drop overnight from probably
    >> 300 posts/day to 10 posts/day.
    >>
    >> Nobody is going to read an email in their mail client, and then
    >> cut and paste the message into a web form to reply to it. I
    >> doubt that many people would use the web form to write a message
    >> in the first place. I would just unsubscribe permanently, and
    >> consider the list as dismantled. I would put $10000 cash on a
    >> bet that says most others would leave too.
    >
    >I for one would.

    You'd leave? Or you'd post via the web? I'm assuming you'd
    leave. I would too.

    Want to know something wonderful about the new "x-linux-kernel"
    From line? It misses my procmail rule. Now instead of
    linux-kernel being filtered into a different folder, my damned
    INBOX contains a motherload of new messages. SIGH!!!!!!

    Time to edit .procmailrc....

    TTYL


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