bhoward
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Access to Email on Grex
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Jan 2 09:15 UTC 2006 |
We allow anyone who gets an account to have instant access to email.
I personally prefer that grex continue providing open access to
email but I am worried that we have made the barriers too low for
would-be spammers and vandals.
Their continued misbehavior is ruining the value of email for
legitimate users by getting the system repeatedly listed in various
spam databases and unfortunately, is consuming an inordinate amount
of staff time that could be better spent on other system problems.
The purpose of this item is to discuss whether to raise the barrier
for access to email and possible ways of implementing such barriers,
be they social or technical.
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steve
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Jan 2 11:14 UTC 2006 |
No social system is going to work with spam weasels, sadly.
We're going to have to come up with a decent way to throttle
exim from handling 100+ emails at once from someone, or make
email only available to some kind of 'verified' user.
One of the reasons I haven't been participating in coop
for the last several weeks is that just about all my time
spent on Grex lately has been watching for spammers, and
cleaning up after them. I have removed more than 150,000
emails from the queue because of these idiots.
The net really isn't what it once was, and Grex needs
to adjust itself to these realities. I note that M-Net
has gone through much the same problem, and they elected
to shut off outbound mail.
We have to figure something out. I'm hoping that a
throttle system will work, and/or a spam filter system
that can apply to outbound mail as well.
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