Re: WebDesignHQ Flash SiteBuilder Newsletter

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:31:35PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:04:35 -0500 
> Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com> wrote:
> 
> > Making it subscriber/posting only is a seriously bad idea. Unless
> > perhaps *all* of the anon remailers can be included as
> > subscribers. 
> 
> Neither is required.  Merely front the list with TMDA.  Unsubscribed
> posters, such as remailer users then just need to confirm their
> addresses to the list to be able to post.

   People posting anonymously thru a remailer aren't going to be able to confirm
their address. 

>  Spammers who never confirm
> never make it to the list.  The rare spammers who do confirm are easily
> tracked and blacklisted.  If you really need to support double blind
> remailers just log the TMDA confirms to a central site where they can be
> browsed.  Double blind remailers then pick up the confirm tokens for
> their own posts and punch them thru to the list.
> 
    You can't expect the remailers to change their method of operation to work
with this. 

> This is quite easy to do.  I wrote the HOW-TO for Mailman atop Exim,
> there's another HOW-TO for Mailman atop Qmail, and extrapolating from
> either of those to Majordomo or other list servers or MTAs is not
> difficult.
> 
> -- 
> J C Lawrence                
> ---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
> claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
> http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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