That would be ok, except people that want to keep the information they reveal about their problems by asking a question, separate from the organizations that have the problem, will stop asking questions.
Mike Edwards > On Sep 6, 2014, at 6:21, "Charles Elliott" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello: > > > > The [email protected] mail list server receives some of > > the most detailed, highly technical, arcane, time-consuming-to-answer, > > and security-related questions from people whose return address is gmail.com > > and other, essentially anonymizing, email addresses. For example, early > > this past summer, the list received mail from a young man who claimed to > > be in London and working on a project somehow associated with Princeton > > University, which is located in the State of New Jersey in the United > > States, and needing incredibly accurate time for some reason. The > > domain name of his return address was gamil.com. Doesn't that > > strike you as being somewhat improbable? Is this the > > same man who recently narrated the beheading of two American > > Journalists in the Middle East? How do you know it is not? > > ISIS members have become incredibly adroit in using social > > Media Websites for their purposes, even thoughtfully giving the > > parents of their beheading victims several days advance notice > > of their son's demise. Some day, is it going to be important to > > ISIS to have accurate time to coordinate a massive strike on > > the electric, railroad, or bridge infrastructure in some > > Western country? Are list members going to facilitate that? > > > > Another example was the person, allegedly from South Africa, who was asking > > detailed, technical, and arcane questions about NTP whose return email > > address was neither in the whois database nor pingable. > > > > I propose that in the short term NTP questions list members not > respond to > > inquires from people whose return address is a bulk email provider, and in > the long > > run the NTP list server be made to reject email from bulk providers, such as > Google, > > Yahoo, and Microsoft, and from domains that are not in the whois database or > that > > do not respond to pings. > > > > Charles Elliott > > 316 E Cambria St > > Philadelphia, PA 19134-3324 > > (215) 425-5222 > > > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
