[Sunhelp] argh! sorry about the spam

Wolfgang Engelien sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Oct 30 09:54:51 CST 2000


>On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 05:55:53PM -0500, Dale Ghent wrote:
>> What Bill /should/ do is close the list to subscribed addresses only.
>> /dale
>
>Tried that, then had to deal with 5-10 messages a day where people sent
>email from an address other than they were subscribed to.  I'll figure
>something out in the next couple of days.

Just a naive thought.
What about letting these people write their subscribing
address in the first line of the message? If neither
(their actual sending address or the first line address)
matches, send them an automated reply with the request
to either subscribe or to proceed as mentioned.

Wolfgang

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