Along with the not-allowing non-subscribers to post comes the responsibility of moderating all new subscribers. These spam-bots are becoming more sophisticated all the time, subscribing to lists, sending a single post and then unsubscribing. So merely preventing non-subscribers isn't enough. And I don't think it is reasonable to ask Henry Howey to moderate all posts by new subscribers. It isn't as if the poor man has nothing else to do!

As for stripping binary attachments, I don't have a problem with that. We're not supposed to send attachments to the list anyway. We're supposed to ask if people are interested and then send individual e-mails with the attachments to those who want them.



Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 12:33 AM 10/12/02, Michael Edwards wrote:

   Well, it might foil them if this list were set to accept messages
only from
subscribers.  I am on other lists that don't allow non-subscribers to
post.  How
about it, Henry?  (And perhaps a filter to remove H.T.M.L. code, leaving just
the bare text, while we're about it - and maybe attachments, too (unless list
members want attachments to be postable on rare occasions when there is a
justification for doing so).)

Why would there ever be justification for attaching a binary to this list?
If you have a binary to share, upload it to a website and post a link.  I
think a filter to strip all binaries would be fine.

mdl


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