[2346] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: [Ted Lemon: Re: Mailing list <-> News gateway...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Thu Apr 17 12:35:20 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:08:31 EDT."
<9704171608.AA04162@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:31:29 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>I'm soliciting opinions from folks on the krbdev list; Ted Lemon has
>made the suggestion that we decouple comp.protocols.kerberos from the
>Kerberos mailing list, because the SPAM has gotten intolerable for him.
>
>What do you all think?
>
>Options range from simply decoupling it, to making
>comp.protocols.kerberos moderated, to some kind of semi-automatic
>moderation, etc.
Without a doubt the Kerberos mailing list is the largest source of spam
that I get. I'd be perfectly happy to get it decoupled completely.
Actually, as long as we're talking about the Kerberos mailing list ...
would it be possible to set the SMTP envelope address to a mailing list
administrator, instead of the person posting the message? Everytime I
post a message I quite literally get bounces for days from bad
addresses on the list. It's not even necessary to run mailing list
software to do this; if you're using sendmail, it's a quick massaging
of the aliases file. Maybe this is supposed to be a sort of
self-moderating feature of the mailing list :-)
In reply to Barry's message, I can't imagine that it would cut anyone
off; who gets netnetws, but can't get a mailing list? Ususally the
reverse is the case.
--Ken
