Re: Con artists on the pari-list

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 11:37 AM, William F Hammond wrote:

> "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com> writes:
>
> > About the only thing to be done is require that senders belong to the
> > list.
>
> W3C recently seems to have had some success with this headache by
> requiring for each of its public lists that a subscribed poster at
> the time of his first post (after the new policy), which is returned
> without distribution to the list, agrees to permanent public archiving
> for all of his subsequent posts to the list.
>
> I can only speculate privately as to why this might be a deterrent.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm sure willing to have my privacy 
abused for the sake of security :-}.

Regards,

Justin

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