Re: [gentoo-dev] Pledge of Allegiance. Please forward

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pledge of Allegiance. Please forward

[Russell Tennant]

On Friday 19 July 2002 01:36 am, Ken Cutshall wrote:
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> Targeted OPT-IN E-Mail Services
>  Orlando, FL - Atlanta, GA
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OK, who's the wiseguy who opted gentoo-dev in on this fantastic offer? 
Seriously, can we check posts against subscribers? Is this possible, 
worthwhile, bad side effects, etc? It'd be nice not to get all the virii 
warnings, spam, etc. I know this has been mentioned - just haven't seen any 
responses to those questions. Thanks.

--
Russ Tennant
russ@spitwad.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pledge of Allegiance. Please forward

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Russell Tennant wrote:

> Seriously, can we check posts against subscribers? 

> Is this possible, worthwhile, bad side effects, etc? 

Possible:yes, desirable: no; we'd like people to be able fire off a mail
to gentoo-dev (and gentoo-user) without being subscribed.

Now that we're finally rid of the Reply-To: madness, this is actually
practical for non-subscribers, too.

> It'd be nice not to get all the virii  warnings, spam, etc. 

Most virii and spam have been sent my list members with infected systems;
closing the list would obviously not fix that problem.

> I know this has been mentioned - just haven't seen any responses to
> those questions. Thanks.

Two immediate solutions is being worked on:

1) Better spam filter 
2) I'm probably going to ban all mails containing HTML attachments.

After that, we may consider closing the list. If that doesn't improve,
we'll probably stop accepting mail sent from Outlook ;P


Kind regards,

Karl T