[ILUG-Social] blocking junk

[Wesley Darlington]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:11:32PM +0000, Colm Buckley wrote:
> > Presumably it might have an option to restrict posts to
> > social at linux.ie to be only those on its subscription list?
> It does indeed.  Is this what people want?  We decided against it on
> the main ILUG list, as there are frequent calls for help there from
> non-subscribers.  I'm willing to go along with whatever people feel is
> best.

I really dislike lists that do this. I end up never posting to them. (*)
I subscribe to lists under different email addresses. I use qmail.

Sure, I can pretend to be my list-subscribed email address when I post,
but then replies to *me* go into my list folder. Life's much simpler
when only the list knows the email address I use for the list.

I can live with the occasional spam. I'm sure it's great fun for the
people at abuse at roughly.wherever.the.mail.comes.from to read a hundred
or so screams, no?

Thanks,
Wesley.

(*) This may be construed by some as a reason to restrict the list...