From: Aaron Turner Date: 2009-06-07T06:36:43+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Charles Calvert wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:12:12 -0500, Aaron Turner > wrote in > <1ca1c1410906061112v1aab8e37u3fbdfb6e1897c393@mail.gmail.com>: > >>For those who want to read via NNTP, couldn't they subscribe and turn >>off delivery?  That way they can read via news and we'd still have a >>way to authenticate their posts. > > If I understand your suggest correctly, you're saying that I should > read on Usenet, but reply via email? No. If you look above, your post via NNTP came as sent by "cbciv@yahoo.com"- I'm assuming your actual email address (if not, should be easy to change to a valid one). The list can thereby use that to check to see if you're "subscribed". In other words, your user experience wouldn't change one bit, other then having to do a one-time subscription (with delivery turned off) in order to post. -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin