RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-07 Thread James Moore
> Top priority for me is that common list operations must not > require manual attention. There were more than 16,000 > different senders on our lists so far. And only a small > fraction of those addresses are subscribed. Do you really > want to approve all those sender add

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-07 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > This might be workable. I fear Sascha's solution could be rather prone to > mistakes, and it would slow down list delivery for everyone. Requiring > approval for non-list members is a hassle for them, but if enough people > are willing to be on the re

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
This might be workable. I fear Sascha's solution could be rather prone to mistakes, and it would slow down list delivery for everyone. Requiring approval for non-list members is a hassle for them, but if enough people are willing to be on the receiving end of these messages to be approved it pro

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-PEAR] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Toby Butzon
Another possibility :) Would require a bit of shifting things around, which could be quite a bit of a disturbance. I have a get-to-the-root-of-it-all sort of question: Is the problem that it's too hard to combat spam or that the people in charge of the lists don't have time to really get into it?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Toby Butzon
Sascha Schumann wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Toby Butzon wrote: > > > Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the > > head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I > > brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong > > resis

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Rasmus Lerdorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What we are not interested in is stopping people who are not subscribed to > the lists directly from participating. A lot of people read the lists via > nntp or through various web gateways. You can rant all you want about the > spam, but until you com

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Toby Butzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the > head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I > brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong > resistance. > > Maybe when the list gets to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the > head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I > brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong > resistance. > > Maybe when the list gets to be 20% spam they'll listen. It _is_ ste

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Toby Butzon wrote: > Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the > head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I > brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong > resistance. You'd be surprised to lear

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread Toby Butzon
Although I agree, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Somehow, the head PHP folks don't seem to be too interested in combatting spam; I brought up the discussion a few weeks ago and was met with strong resistance. Maybe when the list gets to be 20% spam they'll listen. It _is_ steadily getti

[PHP-DEV] Re: Dear Friends & Future Millionaire:

2001-02-06 Thread André Langhorst
Couldn't some just go and kill those spammers? Is it possible to set rules (similar to those my mozilla takes) for the list? class a candidate would be 'SEEN'+'NATIONAL'+'TV' and the like andré Original Message Subject: [PHP-PEAR] Dear Friends & Future Millionaire: Date: Tue,