From: Charles Calvert Date: 2009-06-07T10:40:05+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:36:43 -0500, Aaron Turner wrote in <1ca1c1410906061436tff3dd46wd9cc1f84886160e5@mail.gmail.com>: >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. Huh. That's an interesting suggestion. I'd personally be okay with making the effort to maintain a subscription from the same address that I use to post in comp.lang.ruby if it would help the folks on the mailing list get less spam. One downside to your suggestion is that folks who find the newsgroup and start posting would be seen only by those reading the newsfeed until and unless they subscribed. It's a small barrier, but a barrier nonetheless. -- Charles Calvert | Web-site Design/Development Celtic Wolf, Inc. | Software Design/Development http://www.celticwolf.com/ | Data Conversion (703) 580-0210 | Project Management