On Wed, 8 May 2002, Keith Morse wrote:
> As I also did. I'm still unclear why making the mailling list closed
> would jepardize "the project's freedom of speech goals".
Because it would eliminate the possibility to post from untraceable
addresses. Nosy governments and/or employers would always be able to trace
back a given posting to the sender, and possibly take action on that.
I think a much better solution to the mail-warning spam we are getting
would be to have a procmail recipe bounce back spam to the sender at the
user level. In this way, spammers would be paid back by hundreds of
bounces, one for each subscriber. No subscriber would be doing a mail
bombing, but the effect would be the same, and perhaps convince some
lazy postmasters to either configure their mail scanners properly if it
can be done or dump them in favour of better mail scanners which can be
configured properly otherwise.
Bye
Giacomo
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