What about a self authenticating mail systems where you have to have a valid email address.
so some thing like 1) I would like to join the email list 2) mail system send message with random key to email address 3) user returns email with the random key 4) valid account (well) or after 2-5 days time out the email This could be automated Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Waugh Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 9:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SLUG] SPAM stuff <quote who="Pia smith"> > What the faq is happening with all this spam?! :) > > Time to play around a bit more with SPAM assasin people! SpamAssassin can't kill everything; it matches common spam phrasing and patterns, but it won't match viruses or attachments, and we can only take the threshholds down so low without having to moderate all of Craige's email as well ("APPLAUSE" "LAUGHTER"). The only truly effective way to stop spam to the list is to allow posting by members only. Unfortunately, that will increase the burden on the moderation team, and make us harder to reach. If a lot of people were comfortable with it, perhaps we should try it out. - Jeff -- "Everything I knew about TCP/IP I had downloaded the same day I started hacking the net code." - Alan Cox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
