("sql", to make the mail go through ;)
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Colin Faber wrote:
> This has been discussed to death on the freebsd mailing lists, The over
> all feeling was to add such a system would `break' most of the clients
> that subscribe and would eliminate the open mailing list we have now,
> Most list subscribers know that about 10/20 questions a month that come
> to this list come from people not subscribed.
>
> I think all and all the thought Is good though implementing this idea
> would be too much of a headache on non subscribers that wish to post
> messages.
FWIW, Red Hat uses this scheme on our mailing lists, and it works well.
Of course, for relevant posts by non-posters there will be a slight delay.
OTOH, it avoids valid posts by members being rejected because they don't
contain any of a specific set of keywords.
An even better approach might of course be to have a mix of these - all
mails by members go through, and the rest have to match a the set of
keywords. It shouldn't make it any easier for automatic spammers, while it
would decrease the numbers of false positives.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
