On November 24, 2004 at 10:29, Fred H Olson wrote: > On my lists I still find that requiring posts to come from subscribed > addresses keeps virtually all spam from being distributed. I've had > very few if any instances of spammers subscribing to a list to spam it. > Does mail-archive.com archive lists to which anyone can post?
List administration is handled by the list owners not mail-archive.com. Therefore, if the list owner allows anyone to post to the list, then the messages will get archived (unless mail-archive.com spam filters believe such messages are spam). > As one last precaution I have new subscribers first messages moderated > (sent to the reject page) so I'd catch a subscribed spammer's first > message. This has the added advantage of catching some "please > unsubscribe me" messages from people who never post anything else. Something that may be good to do for list administrators. Mail-archive.com does not perform any list administration functions. > -- Advertising on mail-archive.com -- > Regretable that you have to have it but it's more tolerable than yahoo's. > With my browser (Mozilla 1.4.1) the ads occasionally prevet the last few > characters of a message line from being displayed. Example, in: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mpls%40mnforum.org/msg32125.html > The end of the third line on my display reads What operating system? Message looks fine to me, but I'm using a later version of Mozilla. > The list name link in the upper left corner of a message page and of index > pages bring up an index page. Such a link on index pages is pretty > useless, it would be much better to link to the lists "info page" (I think > all lists should and most do have these) which in turn has description of > list, subscription info etc. Are there links somewhere to contact info > for archived lists? Mail-archive.com is as automated as possible, including the detection of new lists to archive. Helps keep operational costs down. Right now, there are no facilities for list administrators to register list info, and such capabilities would require human-based review for content. I believe the folks at mail-archive.com have considered additional features similiar to this, but such things will probably not get added unless it can be automated and done in a secure fashion. --ewh _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
