There are several solutions that I can see: 1) Have the mailserver reject the first delivery attempt by a non-list recipient. (Or, for that matter, the first delivery attempt of *any* mail.)
2) Require that someone who is not on the list to respond to an automatic response. 3) Reject non-subscribed senders. #1 will probably induce an unacceptable load on the mailserver. #2 will induce some load, but at the listserv level. #3 will probably have the least load, but will prevent non-subscribers from asking questions. -Ian On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:08 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2005 10:29, Willie McKemie wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:36:07AM -0700, Arabella wrote: > > > Penis enhancement patch, doctor approved and recommended. > > > > Other lists do not have this pervasive spam problem. Isn't there a > > solution better than un-subscribing? > > The solution, used by virtually every mail list other than Debian, is to > prevent posting from addresses that are not subscribed. People can get > around it, but not as easily as with these wide open Debian lists. > -- > derek > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
