On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Asymmetric wrote:
At 10:54 09/19/2000 +0200, harald@f00.nu wrote:
At 17:08 2000-09-18 -0400, you wrote:
That the list be changed so that unregistered email addresses cannot send messages to it? This spam is getting ridiculous.
I suppose you know why we donŽt have that (the remailing issue). But I kinda have another idea. Just start every subject line with eg -C-P- like I did now, then it would be really easy to filter all the mail.
Last I checked the remailers allowed return mail to be sent through them, to the owner of the anonymous account.. isn't that the point? It's easy
You checked quite a long time ago. Return mail isn't possible with Type 1 or Type 2 remailers.
enough to forge the email header that I can't believe they exist just to totally isolate anyone from the responses.. how would someone using a remailer even join the list (to receive messages) if that was the point?
You use a remailer to post to the list, not to read it.
The only part where I see this being useful is if somebody has some kind of anonymous announcement to make, where they don't intend to join the list.
Huh?
The benefits of having the list open to unsubscribed postings seem far outweighed by the cost in time spent by everyone filtering messages and server resources that could be better spent running dnetc if nothing else ;). It's just auxiliary that I've never seen an anonymous post to the list in the past when I subscribed, nor more recently since I resubscribed. Undoubtedly some smartass will send an anonymous message to the list now just to say "see!" :P
Well, if you would stop using the toad.com address, you might have less spam.
There has to be some way around this that will still preserve anonymity, although one doesn't seem readily apparent unless the anonymous party subscribes under their pseudonym.
pseudonymity != anonymity.
What about just creating another list (closed-posting) and then just allowing people to choose which to subscribe to? Obviously, the open-posting list would be subscribed to the closed posting list, but not the other way around.. so at the risk of missing the massively important anonymous message that has yet to be sent, I could eliminate some of this spam?
Been there, tried that. There is nothing wrong with the current setup. -S.R.