RE: [chairs] TC mailing list guidelines

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

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>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
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> -----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
>
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