20 Mar
2002
20 Mar
'02
1:24 p.m.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Jay West wrote:
1) Ok, here are the two things I was considering doing
to change the mailing
list settings....
A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML content. I think
this would be fairly unobtrusive - most people don't want HTML posts here
anyways. And - I would bet that most all SPAM contains some form of HTML, so
this might not get rid of all SPAM forever, but I think it would make the
very few that come here dwindle to even less. Comments?
I like it.
However. It ain't enough.
I agree with the rest that it would be better if our email addresses
weren't so obvious in the archives.
I also don't think I like the instructions at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/majordomo-help.txt
in Section V. on how to harvest a complete contact list.
B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of
making posts to the list from
non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. This one I
am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but would think it pretty
straightforward. Comments?
I'm OK with that. I might also suggest an alternative; put a link on
the website to a dedicated "offers" address that propagates immediately
to the web-page. That would exempt prospective donors from whatever
filtering we do on the list. Interested members could check that page.
2) WRT the archives at www.classiccmp.org
My favorite list software is ezmlm, but it's qmail-only (barf). As I
said last week, I'll do anything I can to help with any solution you
choose.
Doc
P.S. -- I have a 4U Aspen Alpine you can have. 275mHz 21064 Alpha.
Big, noisy bastard.
Doc