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Subject: RE: [chairs] TC mailing list guidelines
I was just talking with TB-L about this topic (among others) this morning and he suggested the same thing. I'll look into it. </karl> ================================================================= Karl F. Best OASIS - Director, Technical Operations +1 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org > -----Original Message----- > From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:47 PM > To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [chairs] TC mailing list guidelines > > > > > > The only reason I've required subscriptions to these lists > is to keep > > the spam out. We're been hit *hard* by bots collecting > email addresses > > from our site, and any of the lists that I've opened even > for a short > > period of time to non-subscribers gets hit with spam. > > > > I note that you're not volunteering to moderate a public > > comment/discussion list for your TC. Neither am I. If you can find > > someone to moderate it I'll open it up. Otherwise we'll > have to require > > subscriptions. > > I don't volunteer to moderate by hand, but I do volunteer to > help find an > appropriate technical solution to the spam problem. > > I'm told the W3C is planning to solve this problem with a > query/response > system. The first time somebody sent a message to a comment > list, they > would get a response along the lines of: "You have sent an email to a > publicly archived W3C list, if this is your intent please > send token X to > the return address to confirm your posting and enable such > postings in the > future." This sounds like a good solution to me. > > James > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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