On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:51, Warren Togami wrote: > > Martin List-Petersen wrote: > > > I've enabled the whitelist on the mailinglist today. > > > Initially everybody has to authorise themselfes > > > (on the first mail), just for my laziness :o) > > > > > > This should get rid of the rest spam, that from > > > time to time hits the list. > > > > > > > This is no different in purpose than allowing only subscribers to post, > > but yes this should cut down the spam. > > Actually it is different in purpose: > > the whitelist software can handle recipient_delimiters (or in this case > sender_delimiters, seperated by "+"), so that people who use one time > email-addresses and likewise not have to authorise every time they send > a mail. Also this whitelist can cover more than one mailinglist if > needed. > > Second thing is that you still don't have to subscribe to post to the > list. You just have to authorise your email-address, which is very much > simpler. Not everybody wants to subscribe each and every email-address > they have and diable mail delivery for those.
agreed, do not forget, if I stuble over a message which might be interesting for let's say linux-vserver folks, I would not bother to subscribe there, just to forward this email ... thanks, Herbert > Kind regards, > Martin List-Petersen > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
