On Aug 10, 2018, at 7:19 AM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote: > > Thus said Warren Young on Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:45:09 -0600: > >>> Will this ever be enabled? I prefer email over web forum posting. >> >> How would you prevent spammers from using an email submission >> mechanism? > > Most mailing list managers prevent this by only allowing subscribers to > submit emails. I cannot recall the last time I saw spam sent to > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org…
That’s not the problem described in the thread I linked you to: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Problems-with-v3-9-0-entry-point-sqlite3-finalize-could-not-be-located-td85005.html#a85069 You only need to read the first post, not the whole thread. Fossil forums prevent that problem. > Gmail supports email aliases. If you’re speaking of the free Gmail product, it only supports the user+...@example.com style, which fools no spammer. They just strip the +ext bit off. If you mean G Suite, you only get 30 of them per account. I run the mail server for my personal domains, and I have 240 aliases on my main email account. You want lots of aliases because it allows you to have unique email addresses for any site whose security you are not entirely certain about. I wish I’d created *more* aliases, in fact, because my real email address gets most of the spam I receive, by far, suggesting that I should have hidden it more often. >> If we don't solve that problem first, we'll be right back in much the >> same mess as today. > > Replacing a mailing list with a web forum seems to simply trade one set > of problems for another. Every choice worth spending thought on has tradeoffs. drh has made his choice. I don’t think you’re going to sway him on this. > I'm on dozens of other public mailing lists > that get a lot more traffic than Fossil Users does and there seems to be > no problems there… Roughly 80-90% of mail traffic is spam, but that’s not a problem? https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/2175 > Why don't we leave both in place and see what people prefer to use? I made that very suggestion earlier. > Those who are willing to live with the problems that come with email > will express their preference by continuing to use email. Some of the burdens fall on drh, rather than on the users of the mailing list, so he has some say in how all of this goes. > Is the web forum now moderated? Yes, from day 1. I am one of the moderators. > Does it help? No spam has made it into the forum blockchain yet. I also haven’t seen anyone attempt to spam the forum. If it never happens, that’s fine with me. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
