On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam > and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
Ummm, I guess we could: - shut down the news gateway, and restrict posts to debian-user to those who are subscribed to it, and make subscription a little tricky (confirmation via a reply that requires the user to jump through a small hoop -- in effect an intelligence test, although one easy enough for small children, pets, etc. to complete, but not the majority of AOL users... ;) or, we could: - live with it, and/or filter incoming messages appropriately with procmail (filtering messages which match the expression (????|!!!!) is interestingly effective, I find). I favor the second option, I think. For those occasional stupid/misplaced messages, the 'D' key works quite nicely. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .