Re: excessive bounces

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > Face it, this is not 1994 anymore, the internet has lost its innocence,
> > and badly maintained open lists like the auto*tools lists on gnu.org are
> > a relict of the past.
>
>
> Unfortunately, SPAMmers quickly learn how to break through automated 
> defenses so that they can simply subscribe to lists.  One way or 
> another, list servers are simply overwelmed.  There seems to be no 
> reasonable solution.
>
> I believe that all of the SourceForge lists are also open.   They used 
> to support blocking non-subscribers but that became a nightmare for 
> maintainers so the capability was removed.

Not true.  Although the maintainers get the SPAM the SF lists can be 
closed to subscribers only.  For the maintainer it is just a matter of 
clicking a few checkboxes to Discard or Reject based on whether a true 
non-member post was attempted.  I also setup Forums and direct the post 
to a common users list so that non list members can ask questions.  I do 
require a SF account to post using a Forum.

Earnie

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