Re: [oc] Seamless Functionality

[volodya@mindspring.com]

What about having a web submission form to send e-mail ? Then you can type
into it online, but cannot use automated tools to abuse.

                           Vladimir Dergachev
PS this is in addition to being able to send e-mail from registered
address.

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Damjan Lampret wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> lately spam is becoming really a big problem. What we are thinking right now
> is to change status of this list from open to closed. Meaning you can post
> to this mailing list only from email address that you used during
> subscription. In most cases this is ok and it would also eliminate 95% of
> spam email. However some of you use different (daily) email compared to the
> one that you used to subscribe (for exampel if you have email aliases that
> deliver email for different aliases to common mailbox).
> 
> Should we make this list closed?
> 
> In case that you send email with different from email address than the one
> that you are subscribed with, your email will be silently droped. One way is
> to send all denied email back with a message that you can bypass closed list
> by sending email to some unpublished email address (for example
> cores-direct@opencores.org or something like that). I think automated spam
> software won't be able to analyze this response and send email to hidden
> open list.
> 
> I'm also thinking to change all email on the web site from
> email@opencores.org_NOSPAM to email (at) opencores.org. This is now very
> common on some known web sites that host mailing lists (for example GCC web
> site uses this trick). Should we try to do this? However this method of
> tranforming email address might be confusing for someone who sees this for
> the first time.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> regards,
> Damjan
> 
> > WHY MEGABYTES?
> 
> 
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