From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] INVESTMENT & ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20020618072319.N5532@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20020617004929.22576.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020617004929.22576.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>; from Scott Schwartz on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:49:29PM -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:23:19 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1c67328-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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