Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
Igor Chudov @ home
ichudov at algebra.com
Tue Feb 11 17:32:23 PST 1997
Patrick May wrote:
> Before doing this, I'd need the answers to a few questions:
>
> - Is there still any interest in a cypherpunks mailing list?
yes
> - Is alt.cypherpunks a better alternative?
it is not an alternative, it is a complement.
i think that alt.cypherpunks will be a failure because all of
the troubles of alt.* hierarchy.
> - Majordomo can be configured to require confirmation of
> subscription requests, thus avoiding some attacks. Is there
> any simple way to protect against mailloops? Directly
> accessing the listname-outgoing alias?
Add X-Loop: header and use procmail to protect against messages
FROM_DAEMON and FROM_MAILER.
> - Is a pentium up to the task of running a list of this size and
> volume?
yes, it is the other stuff that's the problem -- memory, connection
speed, etc.
- Igor.
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