[ale] Recent influx of spam

[ari]

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let's see if this one makes it through to the list...
i know about the various ~'s... they're so the message doesn't bother
majordomo.
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well, since you asked...
personally, i think if anyone wants info from us, they can sub~scribe.  if they
think further info is useless to them, they can then unsub~scribe.  it seems
some people differ in opinions, though.  some say moderation, some say just
let it all through.  i propose this:

if someone wants to send a letter to the list for insight, and really has
something against temporarily subscribing to it, he (or she for all you
politically correct people out there) can send the e-mail to a certain
person's  e-mail address.  this certain person is on the list.  this person
looks at the mail, and if he (or she) decides it's worthy of being submitted
to the list (i.e. not a spam, or someone saying "tee hee, linux sux" or
whatever (though you may want to let the latter through, as the sender
actually went through the trouble of finding out what the acronym means))...
he forwards it in.  Now, the return address on this mail is the e-mail
address of the original sender.... but the from address is of the original
sendee, so it can get through to our MEMBERS-ONLY list.  the mail header
setup can be done with a relatively simple script, or quite easily implemented
into a .muttrc file, for anyone using mutt.

sound like a plan to anyone else?
we'll need a volunteer, btw...  i'd say i'd do it, but i take occasional long
bouts away from my computer (and home) without telling anyone... and i don't
think that would be too appreciated.

oh, hi again, by the way... not that anyone missed me.....

ari


Jeremy T. Bouse (undrgrid at undergrid.net) said this stuff:

>       I don't like the idea more than anyone else... but does anyone
> besides me feel that it may be time to close the ALE mailing list to
> subscribed members only. In the last month we have had several cases of
> spammers using the list to do their dirty work of collecting e-mail
> addresses.
>       I'm curious on other peoples opinions of ways we could deal with
> this issue.