Koch Tibor wrote:
>
> From: "Warren Toomey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I could allow only subscribers to post to the list, but I've done this
> > before on other lists, and I found that people often post from other
> > e-mail addresses, and that blocks their postings.
>
> Let that be their problem. I think security should prevail over some
> people's convenience. Besides, these members can unsubscribe and then
> subscribe again from their new e-mail address any time so this should be no
> real problem. At least intentionally malevolent e-mails could be eliminated
> if only members were allowed to post to the list.
I am strongly against disallowing postings from non-subscribers :
- it is an annoyance to legal users who post from different address
- mail addresses can be forged with ease anyway
- spam can be dealt with with other means
Anti spam ideas :
- allow only plain text messages, this will kill 99.9 % of spam ( I guesstimate :-)
- also limit the mail size to 10k or so ( as you already did )
- having larger mails ( with attachments ) only waste bandwith for all, since only
a few people are interested in the files posted. If someone wants to exchange
files,
do it in private ( over mail, ftp or whatever )
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