I second the idea to close posting privleges to only subscribers.
On Feb 23, 2:21am, Ken Williams wrote:
> Subject: Re: How do we stop the spam...i have one idea...anyone else ?
> On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Danny Gumport wrote:
>
> >All,
> > I have also received a large number of junk emails
> >that seem to be directed through greatcircle.coms mail
> >gateways...seems to have been getting
> >worse over the last few weeks.
> > The porn advert that was mentioned this morning was one.
> > the Talkpower.com one was a public one...
> > Seeing as we all care about security - email spam
> >is a security threat... how can we all work together to
> >stop the name lifters and people who send things to our whole
> >list ? the Talkpower ad says to send them mail to get off their
> >mailing list but it is addressed to firewalls @
greatcircle .
.
.
> >can the mast of this last do some scripting that says if there is a
> >trailer to request removal that that mail get auto magically sent
> >to remove firewalls from the spammers list and to not forward
> >it to us otherwise innocent folks ?
> > thanks!
> >-Danny G
> >
>
> why not just configure the mailing list so only subscribers can post? it's
> worth any tradeoffs IMO.
>
> ken williams
>
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