A. Pagaltzis wrote:
This suggests a different strategy: alternate between sending
opt-out and opt-in mails. Indiscriminate autoresponders will
unsubscribe themselves when they get an opt-out mail; people who
throw the mail away will silently drop out after failing to
respond to the opt-in mail.
* Clay Dowling:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] at least does have an auto-responder. The message
> contains the text of any message sent to it, appended to the bottom of
> the email. That would serve to automatically validate the check
> email.
In my experience, the real problem with ezmlm's subscription
Clark Christensen wrote:
>> And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get signed up
>> using a "paypal.com" address. How did they do that?
>> --
>>
>
> As others have pointed-out, there's probably a simple autoresponder on many
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailboxes. It replied, and that was
How about asking a new subscriber to copy some magic number
from the body to the subject of his reply? AFAIK autoresponders
can't do that.
Kind regards
Ulrich
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 17:17, Clark Christensen wrote:
> > And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get signed up
> > using a
> And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get signed up
> using a "paypal.com" address. How did they do that?
> --
As others have pointed-out, there's probably a simple autoresponder on many
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailboxes. It replied, and that was good enough :-)
I think if the list
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:26 AM
To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Purging the mailing list roles. Was: Please
Restore Your Account Access
I agree with Jay. I'd hate to have to respond to an e-mail ping every
so often just to continue reading the list.
On the other
Jay Sprenkle wrote:
On 5/30/06, Eric Scouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with Jay. I'd hate to have to respond to an e-mail ping every
so often just to continue reading the list.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind terribly if I got placed on
"moderated" status (i.e. had to go through a
On 5/30/06, Eric Scouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with Jay. I'd hate to have to respond to an e-mail ping every
so often just to continue reading the list.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind terribly if I got placed on
"moderated" status (i.e. had to go through a verification step in
I agree with Jay. I'd hate to have to respond to an e-mail ping every
so often just to continue reading the list.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind terribly if I got placed on
"moderated" status (i.e. had to go through a verification step in
order to *post* to the list) if I were either
* Jay Sprenkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-30 17:00]:
> You could sign up an autoresponder email account (like paypal)
> and it would stay signed up forever. It would always respond to
> the query email with a reply including the original text of the
> message. You'd need to set it up so they had
On 5/30/06, Eugene Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Basically, what I imagined from DRH's original proposal was that accounts that
have not sent out mails after some period of time would receive an email
informing them that they will be unsubscribed unless they send a mail to the
mailing
BUT, the spammers ARE posting...
> -Original Message-
> From: Jay Sprenkle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:46 AM
> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
> Subject: Re: [sqlite] Purging the mailing list roles. Was: Please
> Restore Your Account Acces
>
> I wonder if I need to implement some kind of mechanism that requires
> you to either send a message to the mailing list or else renew your
> subscription every 3 months. Does anybody have any experience with
> other mailing lists that require such measures?
>
As most people, they are either
On 5/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if I need to implement some kind of mechanism that requires
you to either send a message to the mailing list or else renew your
subscription every 3 months. Does anybody have any experience with
other mailing lists that require
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Fred Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about some form of automated(?) sequence where:
New subscriber submits subscription request.
System sends "query" message to subscriber address.
New subscriber sends "confirmation" message within
1200 is a modest number for a mailing list . Expect it to go up to 3-4000 as
SQLite gets more popular. One reason for the lists popularity is the
friendliness of the list members and their willingness to respond to basic
SQL queries. At some stage the list could be split into two. One for
This is an excellent idea.
Alex
René Tegel wrote:
Hi,
Seen the popularity of sqlite, i think 1200 subscribers is very
reasonable. Lots of people track mailing lists, only contributing
rarely but nevertheless are interested.
You could consider a system that requires moderation by the
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 7:25 AM
> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
> Subject: Re: [sqlite] Purging the mailing list roles. Was:
> Please Restore Your Account Access
>
> Such a system is a
Clay Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> You might want to consider reworking the check mechanism, using the
> capture mechanism that a lot of web forums and blogs use. Users must
> type in text presented on a web page in the form of a graphic. That
> will put a stop to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Fred Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about some form of automated(?) sequence where:
New subscriber submits subscription request.
System sends "query" message to subscriber address.
New subscriber sends "confirmation" message within
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get
> signed up
> using a "paypal.com" address. How did they do that?
Its probably very easy to screen scrape the message to
harvest every link in the confirmation message and do
a wget on it! I must admit that I do
--
> -Original Message-
> From: Fred Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 9:07 AM
> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
> Subject: RE: [sqlite] Purging the mailing list roles. Was: Please
> Restore Your Account Access
>
>
> How a
"Fred Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about some form of automated(?) sequence where:
>
> New subscriber submits subscription request.
>
> System sends "query" message to subscriber address.
>
> New subscriber sends "confirmation" message within reasonable time
>
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 7:13 AM
> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
> Subject: Re: [sqlite] Purging the mailing list roles. Was: Please
> Restore Your Account Access
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Seen the popularity of sqlite, i think 1200 subscribers is very
&
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order to be able to send messages to this mailing list,
the spammer above had to subscribe. To subscribe means that
he had to respond to an email that was sent to the subscription
address. Since his email address does not exist, I'm wondering
how he managed to pull
I second this. I don't mind having to post or refresh my subscription every
once in a while. It would however be important for me to receive a notification
to refresh my subscription instead of just silently removing my subscription.
HTH,
Mike
>Hi,
>
>I think many of the 1217 active
Hi,
Seen the popularity of sqlite, i think 1200 subscribers is very
reasonable. Lots of people track mailing lists, only contributing rarely
but nevertheless are interested.
You could consider a system that requires moderation by the list
administrator for each first message a newly
Hi,
I think many of the 1217 active subscribers are people like me who tune in to
the list but only contribute once in a blue moon.
I do not have any objection to a "send email to keep your subscription active"
idea, but I have never seen that used in the other mailing lists that I
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