Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Off Subject, but...
From: William Uther (will+@cs.cmu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 05 1998 - 11:08:04 EST
>On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Gregor Retti wrote:
>
>> I suppose everybody got it. this is the second time, SPAM was delivered
>> thru this list in the last months. I do not understand, why postings are
>> not restricted to members only.
>>
>
>I'm not decided on whether or not postings should be restricted. The nice
>thing about it is that if someone is having a problem but doesn't want to
>subscribe to the list, they can simply write to the list and get help.
>Obviously the bad side is that people can abuse this and spam us.
How about this: you can only send to the list if either A) you are on the
list or B) you have netatalk-admins@umich.edu explicitly in the To: field
of the mail. That should weed out most spam and still allow most genuine
queries for help.
\x/ill :-}
William Uther "When I die I want to go quietly,
will@cs.cmu.edu in my sleep like my Grandfather,
Dept. of Computer Science, not screaming like the passengers in his car"
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~will/
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