Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: your mail | Date | Sat, 05 Apr 2003 09:21:22 +1000 |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:10:16 -0800 , Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com> wrote: >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.
30 seconds after doing that, the spammers will forge email that claims to be from LT, AC, DM, MT etc. Not to mention all the viruses that forge the headers. Verification by 'From:' line on an open list is pointless.
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