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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mailing List Abuse
From:       rupert thurner <rthurner () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-03-10 10:36:01
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may i suggest the web-link where one can remove himself as ONE
automatically added footer line to all list-mails (resp. find a
description how to remove himself). i think this should avoid 50%
of incompetences, as nobody has to search for it and gets angry
about that.

a second possibility (if abuse or subscribing other people is a
real problem) would be another subscription mechanism, where one
has to answer one time from the subscribed email-adress with a
generated code to complete the subscription.

rupert.

Andreas Pour wrote:
> 
> Hello, Developers,
> 
> I do not know how many of you subscribe to the regular kde mailing
> lists, but I think someone with the power to disable accounts should do
> so more often.  For example, it is becoming increasingly common for
> people who do not want to be on the list, but somehow got on it, to
> mailbomb people who send mail to the list or to spam the list itself;
> yesterday, in fact, someone threatened to hack into people's computer
> and erase the hard drive, and over the last few days every post to the
> KDE list is followed by an automated reply by someone in France saying
> he is not interested in this mail.
> 
> Personally, rather than respond to these people and try to explain to
> them how to unsubscribe, which in some cases is a completely hopeless
> endeavor, I would much rather just unsubscribe them for them.  I could
> probably do this by spoofing their return address but don't want to try
> this.  Someone who subscribes to the lists needs the power to remove
> people who clearly want to be removed but are too incompetent to remove
> themselves.
> 
> I would be willing to take on this responsibility if someone gives me
> the authority, since I read those lists pretty regularly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andreas Pour

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