From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] INVESTMENT & ASSISTANCE
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:23:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618072319.N5532@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020617004929.22576.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>; from Scott Schwartz on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:49:29PM -0400
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:49:29PM -0400, Scott Schwartz wrote:
>
> | Anybody got any good tips for effective ways to deal with spammers?
>
> No, they've won. What we need is an alternative email network that only
> nice people are allowed to use, and meaningful punishment for abusers.
> I see this as our chance to reintroduce bangpaths and uucp. :)
>
You may be joking, but I've been toying with the idea ever since the
Director of the Department of Communications here in South Africa
took it upon his department to take over management of the ZA DNS
namespace. Was UUCP ever ported to Plan 9? Hm, pathalias always
frightened me :-(
> As a first approximation, we could set the 9fans list so that only
> subscribers can post, but that would probably break the usenet gateway.
Unfortunately (but maybe not) you're right, the mail<->news gateway
would fail. Again, that does not bother me, as I have no NetNews
access and prefer closed mailing lists anyway, but others will
understandably differ in opinion.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020616170512.14978199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2002-06-16 21:12 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-06-17 0:49 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-18 5:23 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2002-06-17 1:28 presotto
2002-06-17 1:45 Russ Cox
2002-06-18 6:06 Russ Cox
2002-07-19 0:52 [9fans] useful language extension, or no? David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 12:53 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:41 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-19 18:09 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:38 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-07-19 19:07 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-29 16:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
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