On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:21:14AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > What about a self authenticating mail systems where you have to have a valid > email address. > > so some thing like > > 1) I would like to join the email list > 2) mail system send message with random key to email address > 3) user returns email with the random key > 4) valid account (well) or after 2-5 days time out the email > > This could be automated
It hasn't reached the stage where we get much spam from addresses that are actually SUBSCRIBED to the list. (Except for the Outlook virii, but they normally get caught by the "mail size" filter, because they're generally 100K or so.) So we don't need to make it harder to subscribe to the list than it already is. The spam comes from random spammers around the globe, and is allowed through to the list (if not caught by our filters, including SpamAssassin) because anyone, subscriber or not, is allowed to post to the list. There is always considerable debate about turning that off, because the number of subscribers we have who subscribe from one address and post from another is non-trivial, and the moderaters would have to approve ALL their posts. -Mary. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
