On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, David Dawes wrote: > I'm not particularly interested in using these lists to apply social > pressure. I'm only interested in a mechanism that provides an acceptably > low level of spam without imposing subscriber-only posting restrictions.
Then why not simply use an email confirmation like is used for verifying subscription and then cache the address for n days (where n is 30 or so) if the response comes back positive? Or, even better, only require email confirmation for those messages which get scored as positive for spam. Spam only works because its one-to-many. Forcing a confirmation requires many-to-one and will collapse a spam server (or be ignored, either way you win). In addition, adding a two-way element avoids all the ethical issues of blacklists. If someone really wants to post to the list that badly and they score positive, they'll send the email verification. -a _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
