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The spam problem.

DISCUSSION Peter Chubb 2 participants 2 messages Aug 12, 2002 – Aug 14, 2002 1 message not in the archive

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"Jim" == Jim Roland <[email protected]> writes:

Jim> Now there's a good thought! Post, Confirm, gets posted. If Jim> member, no confirmation necessary.

It'd be impractical because you'd need to merge not only the people directly on the list as members, but also the people who get LKML as digest via Dell, as news, or via a mail exploder.

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"Jim" == Jim Roland <[email protected]> writes:

Jim> Now there's a good thought! Post, Confirm, gets posted. If Jim> member, no confirmation necessary.

It'd be impractical because you'd need to merge not only the people directly on the list as members, but also the people who get LKML as digest via Dell, as news, or via a mail exploder.

It may be very nice to ask confirmation for suspicious posts only. Filter can discriminate messages into:

1.Obvious spam: drop on the floor
2.Possible spam: ask sender to confirm
(with reason why robot thinks it may be a spam)
3.Not a spam: post without confirmation

This avoids problems with good messages being lost and does not require human admins to read the messages. --
vda