On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:02:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes:
> Anyway, I've set up "non-subscribers cannot post", which should help > a little. I think this is the wrong solution. Some people who post rarely may read the archives elsewhere, and now they can't post. A user may have a single question or comment. Before they could send it and read the archives for the response. (Or reply directly if they're on the CC) Now they can't. I just had a 100+ message thread on perl5-porters discussing the impact of my recent research on perl. I would not have had that had that list been set up to deny non-subscribers from posting. And Perl is being changed to be robust against the hash table attack we discussed. My current research is analyzing SA for low-bandwidth DoS attacks on its regular expressions. I'm using SA's regexp's as a test set and I've identified several that are extremely suspicious. Now I am a currently a member of the list (I'm not entirely sure why; I read it rarely), so I can post my results here, but if I'm not... Well, would I be likely to send a subscription request, ack it, send the email, get flooded with dozens of unrelated emails waiting for replies to my post, then send an unsubscribe request, or send it off, note the bounce and just drop it on the floor and think 'I tried'. Scott ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
