Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: SPAM on the gnu.org mailing-list

[Ward Vandewege]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> >A real solution (for all mailing lists everywhere and all mail
> >archives) is to use TMDA for sending outgoing mail, and use a dated or
> >sender address <URL:http://www.tmda.net/config-client.html>
> 
> Well, I'm not convinced.
> When I send a mail to a mailing-list, I do not want write with a 
> temporary email address since it's possible that someone by reading 
> this mailing archive a month later would like to get in touch with me. 
> And it should be possible with ease.

It is. A dated address will simply require someone using it _after_ it
expires to confirm their message. Many people set up their TMDA to 
auto-whitelist sender addresses that are confirmed once, so the confirmation
would usually only be necessary once. Simple, no?

Bye for now,
Ward.

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