Forged subscriptions and the troll.

Jason Slagle raistlin at tacorp.net
Mon Jun 2 17:12:23 PDT 2003


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:

> Pawel,
>
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>
> > Maybe is time to disallow posting for non-members on selected lists?
>
> I second that, there are (probably) lots of people willing to moderate
> the lists and weed out the junk from valid posts.
> Yes, that would mean a possible few hours delay (maybe a day) for
> non-subscribers but I would think that is acceptable.
>
> With time those not subscribed but with a large number of valid
> posts could be whitelisted and thus don't get stuck in the moderator
> queue.

Why not create a "post" list you have to subscribe to to post?

This works well for NANOG.

Jason

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