On Tuesday 08 Apr 2003 4:22 pm +8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run various lists on our Balita server and all of them are set up so that only subscribers can post - I also have the list/s set up until the subscriber makes his/her first post it is moderated. That way we have alleviated the problem of spammers. In this days of spam I think it unwise to have a list that allows anonymous posts.
Hiding the posters address is a good move Wayne > In the wake of <http://www.geeklog.net/ > article.php?story=20030319180103719> we've decided to try and hide the > email addresses from the postings on geeklog-users (as you probably > noticed). The problem is that there's currently no easy way to hide > addresses from the list archives - and, of course, any potential > spammer could simply subscribe to the list and grab the addresses of > people posting there. > > Also, it seems that the spammers have now found out about our mailing > lists and started spamming them. So I have two questions for you: > > 1) Would you like to see the "anonymous" posts on all our lists or > would you like to see it reversed? > > 2) Do you think we should close the lists so that only subscribed > users can post to them? > > bye, Dirk
