Reluctant to add to this (I didn't even see the original messages, filters caught them, the only "spam surge" was on this thread ;) but I think on this list there may be some less technical people around who might benefit from it.
On 2015/04/09 10:16, Jim web wrote: > Well, my experience is also that almost all the email lists I use do > require the posters to register and be approved as a block against > spamming, etc. "block" is the wrong word. "mild deterrent" perhaps. With the amount of spam recently being sent by complex methods such as stolen or guessed webmail or smtp-authentication credentials, requiring a sign-up to post to a mailing list (which can be accepted automatically *very* easily) is hardly going to get in the way. > I've no idea if people are happy with the above being mentioned. But until > I decided to comment anyway on the 'OT' matter I wasn't going to bother > *because the exposed nature of this list does make me want to post as > infrequently as possible*. <public service notice> Assume that any email address posted publically, or guessable, or used on a website, or given to anybody else will get abused at some point. Online shops; dozens have leaked my addresses. People with hacked webmail with me listed in address books. I've had spam to a unique address given only in writing to a local company. Spam to a unique address given only to a *bank*. If you want to avoid seeing spam at an address, don't hand it around! Personal, private address? *only* give it to personal, private friends! For anything else, hand out low value addresses (webmail, time-limited, unique-per-sender and cancellable) instead. </public service notice> Otherwise you need to filter, if you have good ways to do that, but that's a much harder (and constantly changing) problem. Requiring sign-up before posting (and moderating new posters) is good to prevent very technical lists from degenerating. I don't see how it does much else that isn't better handled with tighter controls on mail content (funnily enough I have some recollection that this list used to be a bit tighter on this, but removed some restrictions after user whining?) and protocol compliance. And like some others (including I think the list owner), I very often find that requiring signups to post gets in the way and does little to avoid either spam or some of the other (far more time-draining) worthless posts. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
