[vorbis-dev] GOOD BUSINESS FOR YOU

[Monty]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Ray Heasman wrote:
> Hi Monty,
> 
> There is a way around this. You can use TMDA, which will send back a
> confirmation request to someone if their mail address isn't on a
> whitelist. It just sends an email saying "Reply to this if you are
> human.". In my experience this cuts out 99.99% of spam.
> 
> If you would like to see how it works, try a test mailing to
> ray at rucus.ru.ac.za (Monty only. I'm not going to spend my life deleting
> test mail. :-) )
> 
> Anyway, you could vet your incoming stuff to the maillist using TMDA.
> This would mean:
> 
> 1) People off the list can still post to it, in exchange for a
> confirmation message the first time they attempt it.
> 2) People on the list don't get spam. Hopefully, you won't need to worry
> as much about your spam list either.
> 3) You an make TMDA add confirmed addresses to a whitelist
> automatically, so you wouldn't have to do it yourself, and users
> wouldn't be bugged by confirmation requests.

Hmmm... you know, that pretty much meets requirements.  I think I will
indeed have a closer look at TMDA.

<p><p>> 
> TMDA can be found at http://tmda.sf.net
> I'm not involved with them. I just like their project.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:42, Monty wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:20:13PM -0700, Brendan Dowling wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:41:18PM -0400, Monty wrote:
> > > > No filter is perfect, some spam gets through.  This pattern has been
> > > > added to the banlist.
> > > > 
> > > > Monty
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Monty, 
> > > 
> > > Why don't you just make it so that only list subscribers may post
> > > messages to the list?  Wouldn't that make the most sense?
> > 
> > No, that was the policy originally, and it caused me much more grief.
> > 
> > Monty
> 
> 
> 
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