Oleg wrote:
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user.
2) Set it to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3) Leave
No list managemenent system can protect against this.
I don't know what the state of the art of list management software is, but it
must be possible to
a) limit the number of messages from any user to say 50 a day;
b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't
subscribed, how could he post?
c) detect "lameness" like Slashcode sites, and Google Groups (identical
repeated messages, malformatted messages, etc.)
Just my $.02
Oleg
I've always been a big fan of banning web-based email addresses from
the lists, all of them. With the web-based email addresses
(hotmail, yahoo, et al) it's way too easy for someone to really
abuse the system in so many ways by setting up alias'.
Politically, it can be very damaging.
In a local User Group, we had a political elections process get
derailed because the same person was making motions and seconding
them on the email lists and then started real lawsuits against the
administrator when he, the administrator, started trying to clean
out the malicious email accounts.
It was a real mess. The email Admin quit overnight, the a$$ got
banned and nearly beaten, and the User Group is in a shambles as a
result of all this.
Say, now that I think of it... Is there some easy was to use some
kind of intelligent filtering process that could handle removing
some of these web-centric email accounts? I'm not very good with
email...
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