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Re: Spam
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 [email protected] wrote:
> Ulric Eriksson writes:
> >
> > I've had it. From now on only registered subscribers can post to this
> > list. That is a PITB because there are valid reasons for non-subscribers
> > to post, but the spam is becoming a nuisance.
>
> Hm, we use another mechanism on the Debian lists, which allows
> non-subscribers to post: on 1st submission, reply to the sender a mail
> with a random cookie in the subject, asking him to reply to this mail
> to get registered as authorized to post.
The idea is nice, but it doesn't seem to work: after I unsubscribed from
debian-devel, anything I try to post is just silently dropped. I read the
list from the web archive and there are sometimes questions about Siag
which I would like to answer.
Ulric