On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:10, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:48:34AM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > A C/R system on a mailing list? Please don't even consider it. > > > > Other suggestions are welcome. Please contribute some. If you have > > something better that challenge-response, please let us know. > > > > BTW, As you are a subscriber, a) you've already gone through a c/r in > > order to join, and b) it wouldn't effect you anyways -- this is in only > > in regards to non-subscribers. > > Sorry I have no suggestions except to make the list moderated.
Now _that's_ a non-starter. I've never seen an unmoderated mailing list become a moderated one. First, you need someone willing to do the job; second, you need someone acceptable to everyone else who's already on the list. Won't happen. > I am not > an expert in email systems but from my reading on C/R it seems the > experts pooh pooh C/R. By experts I mean the regular posters who offer > the most help and seem to be knowledeable in email systems. For some > "discussion" on C/R check out comp.mail.misc archives. It's unnecessary. Everybody understands the point. Nobody likes C/R. But Ian's suggestion is only that you subscribe OR do C/R. Nobody _has_ to do the challenge/response more than once (in fact, some C/R systems _do_ remember every user who has passed the C/R, so it's possible that no user would ever need to go through more than one C/R. > > I don't consider the confirmation message to subscribe to this mailing > list C/R. To subscribe, you send a request to the list admin interface, it sends you back a challenge, you send it a response. It looks exactly like _every_ other C/R system. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
