On 2002.06.25 00:45 Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> Note however that not all HTML mail is spam, there are users
> trying to post HTML as well.
And they shouldn't :-) HTML adds *nothing* to the content of
someone's mail.
> > Second: Users who aren't on the list can't mail to the list
>
> I was against this before, but the spamming is getting pretty
> bad now, so I'll reconsider. Would anyone who has a problem with
> no longer being able to post from non-subscribed addresses please
> mail me personally? Depending on the number of objections we might
> decide to try and implement this.
I don't object, but I recall from discussions on this very same
topic in the past, that the main reason *not* to implement this
form of spam-block, was that one person should be able to use
several accounts (e.g. a regular ISP and some webmail client).
This could be solved in several ways:
- make someone with multiple account subscribe for every account
he/she has. Not ideal, but easy to implement :-)
- allow 'mail aliases'. If a person subscribes, he/she can
enter several e-mail addresses. The mailing list server should
only send/forward mail to 1 address, but accept mail from all
in the list.
just my 2 cents,
Eric
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