I almost forgot, add a 5 day delay before permission is granted to post to
the list. This will make it usless to spammers and promote reading the list
posts for a few delays before you post yourself - something that is a
standard recommendation to people signing up to any mailing list.
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James D. Wilson, CCDA, MCP
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
-----Original Message-----
From: James Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 7:22 PM
To: Paul Borghese; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: DNL Blackhole list for GroupStudy [7:14082]
My recommendation would be to require a confirmed email subscription process
which only allows posts from specific subscribed email addresses and not
from web forms. Furthermore your web archives should strip out any personal
email addresses to keep spambots from harvesting addresses. Also make sure
that all email posts include the IP address of the post in the headers.
That way we can go after the spammers with the ISP's. Make the subscription
process be to reply with a string such as "add [EMAIL PROTECTED]" prior to
allowing posts from that address. This would put a stop to automated
postings by spammers. The extra effort will be enough to stop people being
able to buy spamware that lets them post to the list. Most spammers are
lazy (unethical) *&%$s. If you make it really easy to spam the list they
will do so. If you use standard "best practices" in controlling posts you
will put a stop to automated spam. I get approximately 750 - 1000 messages
a day from various mailing lists. The only mailing list I get spam on is
this one. This is also the only mailing list I am on that does not require
posts via email from double-opt-in registration. And I am on a *lot* of
mailing lists.
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James D. Wilson, CCDA, MCP
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Paul Borghese
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 6:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DNL Blackhole list for GroupStudy [7:14082]
I would like to hear some opinions on using a DNS blackhole list such as
maps, or ordb with GroupStudy.com. Good idea, bad idea? Effective?
Paul
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