On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 03:18 PM, Sterling Hughes wrote:
Or perhaps do what the php project does. If you're not a subscriber, you must perform a one-time "autoresponse," which can reasonably verify that you are not a spammer.
Any additional spam that is recieved is simply blacklisted. We haven't had spam for awhile, while the real messages get through.
I really like the double-verification scheme PHP uses for the mailing lists. It would be great if we could do that on the other* ASF lists.
-aaron
*(FWIW, PHP is ASF, but does not share the same infrastructure at the moment)
