>Another wish... probation. I had a system with Majordomo, daily >cron rotation of subscriber files, that I liked, hackish as it >was. New subscribers were unable to send mail to a particular large >and active list for a period of time (five days in my case) after >subscribing. This was to force new subscribers to read the list traffic >and figure out, as much as they could in five days, list culture and >what is acceptable. That list has lots of "juvenile" subscribers, >and the probation period is (was) useful to temper their behavior.
A probation period would be a nice spam-deterrent also; I'm pretty sure we've had at least one person subscribe first, then send advertising immediately, to one of our lists. Jerry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773 -- The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the governmentıs power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
