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xml-dev
Re: [xml-dev] ADMINISTRIVIA: list server / archive problems?
by Uche Ogbuji other posts by this author
Aug 10 2002 3:02AM messages near this date
Re: [xml-dev] agreements vs. Hobbes | Re: [xml-dev] matching text with regexp in xpath
>  List,
>  
>  Aliases are not permitted to post to the list to help protect against
>  spoofed mail headers.  If you would like to be allowed to post to the
>  list without receiving mail from the list, send a note to
>  xml-dev-owner@[...].org

Have you guys considered that the inconvenience this policy imposes is greater 
than the likely burden of spam that is clever enough to explicitly post to: or 
cc: to the list?  I'm on many mailing lists which have a less intrusive policy 
and suffer little or no spam.

As it is, I've had to hack my local mail transport agent (Exim) in order to 
post to this list.  If I can do that, any spammer desperate enough to get 
around reasonable measures can do the same thing.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/
Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/devel
operworks/xml/library/x-think12.html
Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-jclark.h
tml
Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerwork
s/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC



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