At 2:10 PM -0800 1/7/2000, Jeremy Blackman wrote:
> I would, however, argue that in largely-unsupervised list hosting
> situations such as eGroups/Onelist, there should be a 'self-ban' command,
> which tells the listserver that you never want to be signed up for that
> list again.
A good idea, or at least some for of "lock this account" setup.
what I've got pencilled in to a system I'm designing is a way to flag
an account such that it's subscriptions can only be modified through
the subscription maintenance page, which would require logging in
with a password. This would allow a user to unsubscribe from
everything and then lock the account if that's what they want,
disallowing anyone else from subscribing them through other means.
Secondarily, I'm designing in a set of 'banned' tables for accounts,
domains and strings, so that the administrator of, say,
whitehouse.gov can have it arranged for the entire domain to be to be
automatically rejected, or if some account is being slammed, it can
be blackholed for the user.
I already do that on an ad hoc basis with procmail, but as I redo
everything into an SQL system, it's easier to do right, and make it
easier to administrate.
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