Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:19:07 -0800 (PST) | From | William Scott Lockwood III <> | Subject | RE: your mail |
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That is the best suggestion I've yet seen. It's an excellent idea!
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ed Vance wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:38 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > [snip] > > A somewhat better anti-spam filter method, than what we use presently > > is to use strictly CLOSED list -- e.g. must be a member to post. > > I have seen what kind of pains closed lists are, I even moderate > > couple small ones. > > > > However we are deliberately running "open for posting, subject to > > filters" policy, which lets questions and reports to come from > > non-subscribers. > > > > Perhaps there is a middle ground. Leave the list open, but require a > confirmation reply prior to passing along posts from addresses that: > > 1. are not members of the list, AND > 2. have not previously done a proper confirmation reply. > > The unconfirmed posts would time out and disappear after a decent interval, > to prevent constipation. > > So, anybody could still post, the members would not be inconvenienced, and > non-members would be inconvenienced only on their first post from each > address they post from. This would preserve the "real time" nature of the > list, while gaining the assurance that all who post are life-forms, even if > they live in front of a keyboard and have no real life. ;-) > > Of course, this would require storage for the list of confirmed addresses > and pending unconfirmed posts, and the bandwidth and other overhead of the > infrequent confirmation messages. > > Just a thought. > > Cheers, > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Ed Vance edv (at) macrolink (dot) com > Macrolink, Inc. 1500 N. Kellogg Dr Anaheim, CA 92807 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >
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