Re: Spam control (was Re: [PHP-DB] wealthy)

[Disregard the message I sent a few seconds ago; we're on a more productive path with this one.] This is mainly addressing Rasmus, now... my sincere apologies if I'm being thick-headed (which I've been known to do)... but the archives are only recieving mail... which means they're only subscribers, not contributors... and even so, since they're subscribed, they would be able to post (not that an archive needs to...) And as for NNTP, which is the only real problem I can see at this point, it is my understanding that the news server subscribes to the mailing list (hence how the messages get from the list to the boards...)... are we not able to modify the nntp interface to email from a certain allowed sender and set a reply-to header that would point to the actual sender's email address (as entered)? I don't mean to be a nuissance and I don't assume that you do nothing, Rasmus. I only assume that the group can only do so much, and to make my push for more anti-spam measures stronger, nobody seems to know why we haven't done more. Still, is there nothing more we can do? If there isn't, I'll drop it - there's no point in beating a dead horse... I just wanna make sure it's a dead horse and not something we could improve. Toby Butzon [ criticism spurs improvement ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Jeff P" <jeffp-php@outofservice.com> Cc: "Philip Olson" <philip@theprojects.org>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Spam control (was Re: [PHP-DB] wealthy) : Yes, but that would prevent all the people who read the lists through : other means such as nntp, mail archive web sites, etc. from contributing. : : -Rasmus : : On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jeff P wrote: : : > : > > In short, only subscribers to the list should be allowed to post to it by email. : > : > : > This would be a good idea, and in fact is fairly : > easy to implement for this mailing list as it is : > being run by a mailing list program that has this : > option (ezmlm). : > : > All that needs to be done to restrict posts to : > subscribers of the list is having the following : > line added after ezmlm-reject in the : > dot-qmail-php-general file: : > : > |/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-issubn '<mailing list dir>' '<mailing list dir>/digest' '<mailing list dir>/allow' '<mailing list dir>dir>/mod' || { echo "Sorry, only subscribers may post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to php-general-owner@lists.php.net to get your new address included (#5.7.2)"; exit 100 ; } : > : > See the -u option under ezmlm-make for details. : > : > best, : > Jeff : > : > : > -- : > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net : > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net : > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net : > : : : -- : PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net : For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net : To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net : :