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[ILUG-Social] Re: blocking junk

[ILUG-Social] Re: blocking junk

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Wed Nov 22 17:20:16 GMT 2000


Hi,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:53:11PM +0000, Paul Mc Auley wrote:
> | 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.
> Mailman has a facility to allow addresses that don't get mails to the list, 
> I think.

I'd grudgingly put up with this. I think my normal email address is on
the "can post but doesn't subscribe" list of the technobabble mailing
list. Which blocks non-subscribers from posting.

> Um no, they take that approach on linux-ipsec, and it seems to be getting a 
> handful of spams _per_day_.

If this list got that number of spams (or anything like it) I'd happily
put up with subscriber-only-posting.

Wesley.




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