Hi,
The TurboPower new groups (news://news.turbopower.com) seem to work fine,
with little spam. Because they host the news groups themselves, there is no
problem with them not being hosted by a particular ISP.
It would be really nice to have a new group, but the ground has been covered
so many times before, it obviously isn't going to happen.
m2cw
QB
-Original Message-
From: Thrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2001 2:39 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anti-SPAM (was: A News Group Perhaps)
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 06:49, Carl Troein wrote:
Tony Buckley writes:
I am not a great fan of Newsgroups - they get spammed too much and
messages
get lost or archived. Some ISPs carry them, some don't. All too hit and
miss for a resource on which I rely and am very grateful for.
I agree, but sadly enough the spam part is true for this list as
well. I completely agree with whomever proposed to have this
list modified to accept mails from subscribed people only
An alternative that has just been implemented on the PHP lists is to
keep an approved list of addresses in addition to a subscribed
list. If mail is sent from either approved or subscribed addresses,
then it is sent on to the list. Otherwise, an automated reply is sent
to the sending address that requires a reply to allow the post to go
through - this eliminates 99%+ of spam I'd bet - at least from examining
my Shred folder (I file the, uh, stuff there and feed it to an
anti-spam system called Razor once a day). Anyway, if a reply is made
to the automated message, then the address is added to the approve
pile for future posts.
Billy
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