Re: Anti-SPAM Suggestion...

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:51:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, ben fleis wrote:

> > A better thing (I think) I was thinking about would be to have it so
> > that only people on the list could post to it, and posts w/ '[lk]'
> > in the subject. Then if someone posts w/o being on the list (Or
> > part of the digest or whatever), and the email doesn't have '[lk]'
> > in the Subject coming in, it gets bounced back w/ instructions to
> > plop '[lk]' in the subject and re-submit, and/or it can be forwarded
> > to some person(s) for manual checking of the message, and they can
> > resubmit it to the list w/ [lk] in the subject if it looks
> > reasonable...
>
> your description is slightly confusing to me. Do you mean
> (1) Either be on the list OR post with [lk], or
> (2) Be on the list AND post with [lk]?
>
> (1) seems quite reasonable, and retains the desired openness, while
> (2) is not only closed, but rather annoying for list users (i know that i
> don't want to type [lk] every time).

My suggestion was (1).

Stephen

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