> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:35:55 -0600 (CST)
> From: "David W. Tamkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Blacklisted: TOPICA.COM
>
> Ron Guilmette asked Vince Sabio,
>
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>
> But every time it's been suggested that Onelist or eGroups drop the function
> to add people to lists without their needing to confirm, other listowners
> get up in arms that there are some very important members of their lists who
> never could have managed to join if they had had to confirm, for whom it is
> too daunting to have to use the Reply and Send functions of their mail cli-
> ents to answer a confirmation request, yet without whom the list cannot prop-
> erly serve its purpose.
>
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Spammers would almost always be someone wanting to set up a large list
bulk subscribe and use it immediately.
Listowner/subscriber convenience and spam prevention could be accomodated
by simply having a max number of un-confirmed subscriptions per day,
and/or a waiting period of x days before a list-owner could start bulk
subscribing...
AND.. all of these could be waived for known list-owners, i.e. those
who have had other lists operating for several months, etc...
And the argumet that some people couldn't handle the confirm process
certainly wouldn't apply to large percentages of list subscribers.
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Another possibility is to apply a 'real' spam filter to mail addressed
_to_ a new /istowner/list list for the first 90 days... that would cure
most of the spam problems right there.
david potter
