On Sunday 25 March 2007 13:51, Peter wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > >> Mailing list members are members because they signed in and were > >> confirmed. There is no need for furhter id. That's the way it works all > >> over the world. > > > > You yourself pointed out in an earlier emails some insights about x86 > > work all over the world, that doesn't make it the right way :). > > Anyway, your header can be hijacked by anyone and they can impersonate > > you, this is SOP for spammers. You have to make more effort into proving > > who you are in order for the list to trust you more, thus, i suggested to > > add some kind of signature to improve. > > The way these things work is, 'don't fix it if it ain't broken'. While > there is a way to abuse the list, it is unlikely to be used. Other lists > with larger circulation are better targets for spam and the process is > still not (or very seldomly) used. Thus using it 'preventively' is in
Security in obscurity. You know, i think most of the unsubcribers to this list, did so because of a high volume of non-relevant emails (to them of course), imagine how a few spam messages could affect others. > the same class as requiring biometric authentication for an entire > country's adult population to allow use of the internet, so as to > prevent a potential teenager from potentially accessing a potentially > damaging website once or twice (usually it's disgusting enough the first > time). Ok, now you are exaggerating. Aside from the scales and completely inappropriate censorship attempts which is not the case here, i did not suggest blocking people who did not provide a signature but rather not run the spam filters on them. You can still send unsigned emails. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
