From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA20975; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:43:11 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21138 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:43:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (smtp-100-sunday.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.100]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i04Fh9H09596 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:43:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from inria.fr (planar.net0.nerim.net [213.41.168.102]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC8B62D60 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:43:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:43:20 +0100 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] posting policy and spam Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Damien Doligez To: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20040103232837.GA20552@iliana> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 damien:01 damien:01 sven:01 luther:01 hash:01 caml-list:01 doligez:01 doligez:01 subscribed:97 subscribed:97 necessarily:02 address:96 address:96 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 12:28 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > What about adding a way to whitelist a given email address, so you > could > post from a list of email addresses you have previously declared, > without necessarily being subscribed to all of those. > > Another idea would be to provide all subscribed persons some hash value > they can add to a specific header, which is then removed by the list > software once it is checked to be a valid one. Could easily be > automated > on both sides, and would allow to post from everywhere. Without going quite so high-tech... The moderator of comp.risks has asked people to include the word "notsp" in their subject lines, in order to quickly tell the spam from the legitimate mail, and he says it works quite well. We could transpose this technique, for example by saying that mails whose subject already starts with "[Caml-list]" or "Re: [Caml-list]" go through even if they don't come from a subscribed address. -- Damien ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners