On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Earl Hood 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).
I would think that mail-archive was enough of a useful service that it could put requirements or at least strongly urge listowners to adopt reasonable policies. For example, surely you would not archive a list that encourages spam would it. [I just realized I should look at your site's policies - laterI guess.] Enforcing such would be difficult but it would give you a tool to deal with the worst cases and may influence some list owners just by being stated. It would be pretty easy to test lists for the subscriber only posting: This is a test messagebeing sent from a special address or to all lists archived at... > > 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. Linux, Fedora Core 1, using Gnome On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > Fred, thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming if you have more. Sorry if I came across as overly critical; mail-archive is a big improvement for may lists. > Does the problem fix itself if you make the broswer wider? Can I get > a screenshot? Send it to my gmail account please <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'll try to get to this after Thanksgiving - gotta run now. > Sorry - the name "gossip" was the first thing I thought of in > 1998. I've changed the footer as you suggested. Thanks. Someday I'll learn procmail so I can manipulate such things to my preferences... Fred -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice - My new listserv org. UU, Linux My Link Page: http://fholson.cohousing.org Ham radio:WB0YQM fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm Central time) _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
