[Chuq von Rospach]
| Yeah. Here's the rub. If I'm asked to allow a *bi-directional*
| gateway from AOL, I say no, because I no longer have the ability
| to nuke off bad users from AOL without shutting down the entire
| gateway or having to go to the aol postmasters to help, and
| frankly, they're probably tired of hearing from me already. And I
| won't allow non-subscribers to post, and I have no way of knowing
| if they're subscribed on a gateway or re-mailer.
I agree about bi-directional gateways, at least if they rewrite
headers. The other approach works fine for me, though:
Messages from unknown addresses are bounced to the list manager. If
the contents look good, the address is added to the approved list, and
resent. This will incur a delay of a day or two. Thereafter, that
person can post to the list unrestricted. If s/he misbehaves later,
it's easy to remove that address from the approved list.
It would be no problem to add mechanisms so a user can request to be
added to the approved list prior to engaging in discussion. (If there
ever is a RFC for list management commands, this should probably be
in.)
Kjetil T.
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