Tore Lund wrote: >>Better Idea, how about changing MajorDomo to accept mail only from people >>registered on the list. OK. This would inconvience some people. But in >>addition >>to this, as most people are, I am also getting tired of the sex >>advertisements. >> > >The reason for the inconvenience is that the list technology is behind >the times. Many other lists - like Yahoo! groups - have options like >NOMAIL and neat ways to peruse messages online. With such improvements >in place, anyone wanting to post could be a member without having to >receive all that mail. > I am not sure I was understood correctly. I while ago I was a member of an organization called HOSPEX. I think it is long since dead. In order for mail to be passed by the list server you had to be registered. IE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would not be able to send mail because he was not a member. This doesn't solve the problem 100% because he could simply just register and then spam, but it does make it a little more difficult.
The problem seems to be that people get lists of email reflectors (major domo's) and this makes their job easier for them to send their spam. If they are serious users then they won't mind registering, but the average spammer just uses a list and doesn't go to the effort. So the idea of online perusal and even sending mail from a web-based form would also work because it is not an "automatic" method, and thus likely not used by a spammer. This then makes it work good for everybody --even unregistered or mail-only users. Sounds sort of like a feature request--who does these anyways??? Regards Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
