- From: Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:44:21 +0100
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Folks, Due to the large amount of spam hitting the http-wg mailing list, I propose to make it closed to postings from non-subscribers unless I hear objections to the contrary. What this will mean will be that if a posting arrives from an e-mail address that isn't on a list of acceptable addresses, it will be sent to the list administrator (me) instead of being sent to the list. I will then either drop it in the bit-bucket (for spam) or send a message to the poster telling them how to post to a closed list (but see below). The initial list of acceptable addresses are the addresses that you folks originally subscribed to the http-wg list with. If you want to know your subscription address, just ask me. What I can do to make this process a little less painful is to keep an additional list of alternative posting addresses for people whose posting addresses are always different from their subscription address. For a _small_ while (like about a week or so), I'll attempt to augment this additional list based on the messages that I see bouncing, and then re-submit the bounced message to the list. After that time, you can either unsubscribe and re-subscribe to the list from your new posting address, or you can send me personal e-mail and ask for an alternative posting address to be added for you. Questions, comments, objections... feel free to e-mail me. (The above functionality assumes that I can get Procmail/SmartList to work as advertised. If it fails, all bets are off and we can all suffer spam.) -- (http-wg list maintainer) -- ange -- <>< http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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