Re: SPAM

[Ulrich Grepel <uli@zoodle.robin.de>]

Stuart wrote:
> > Before anyone
> > could post to the group, they would be required to send a message to
> > the moderator, and he would add their ID to a list of accepted members.
> > Any traffic from someone not on the list would be rejected.  No requirements
> > to be put on, just that you ask for it, first.  Feasible for us?
> That sounds like a very nice idea, if feasible. If there weren't
> technical problems, it doesn't sound like it would be a significant
> increase in workload over the current task of adding mailing list
> subscribers.

What about having a remembering halfautomated moderator [tm]?

That is doing the following:

- make gaffa moderated manually
- then let everyone through automatically who was let through manually once
  (unless permission is revoked)
- let someone screen the rest

Unfortunately even *this* won't work at all. Checking out this possibility
I've scanned the past 18 to 20 or so months and counted the different
'From:'-addresses. Even with using some awk/sort/uniq/whatever intelligence,
there were still 1415 different addresses in 6922 From: lines. Go figure.

Bye,

Uli


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