Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist As I understand there is a decision to keep the debian list open to all.
This results in having to deal with a lot of spam emails. My suggestion is to have a list of authenticated senders and non-authenticated senders. Upon sending a message to the list, a non-authenticated sender will have an e-mail sent back to her with a request to confirm that the email was indeed sent from the address specified in its header and by a person (spammers use automation software and fake email addresses, so most of the spam messages won't be confirmed). The system could require the user to send another email, with an automatically generated confirmation code, to confirm that she sent the first email. Upon receiving the confirmation email, the original email will be published on the list. Additionally the non-authenticated sender may be added to the authenticated senders list. Any person who subscribes to the list will automatically be added to the list of authenticated senders. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers jaunty-updates APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
