This is working great. Thanks for your work on this.
Now the only spam that you and I receive is probably that due to our exposed addresses in Toaster archives (the sensible ones have posted using free accounts).
It would be good to see this loophole closed. Perhaps put a login page in front of the archives or trawl the text,find addresses and modify them (eg 'dot' for '.'). I would prefer to see the latter as it is convenient having the material available to search engines.
Regards, Neil
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Davis Sent: Saturday, 26 August 2006 9:39 a.m. To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: the Toasters list is now restricting posts!
Folks,
Just an FYI to all: we've had to take the measure of restricting posting to the 'toasters' list, meaning that the list will only accept posts from an address which is subscribed. Sorry for taking this measure, but the nature of email today has left us no alternative (not one that will still allow us to get our jobs done, that is!); it's a way to keep the spam to the list to a minimum. And for what it's worth, the spam to the list is almost nil now. (knock wood and cross your fingers). Hopefully, this measure along with the four (yep...four!) separate facilities we have for filtering the gooey pink stuff will be sufficient to make the list a friendlier place again.
For most, this will have no effect. But some may be subscribed via list addresses which will be expanded on the destination domain, and for these folks the ability to reply to or start new threads will be foiled, unless the "From:" address matches the address which is subscribed to the list. In other words:
Admin1 is one of 4 admins at XYZ Corp. who are all part of the alias 'toasters@xyzcorp.com'.
The admins at XYZ subscribe 'toasters@xyzcorp.com' to 'toasters@mathworks.com'.
An email to the 'toasters' list goes to XYZ and is expanded to all 4 admins.
Admin1 then they won't be able to reply or create new posts because 'admin1@xyzcorp.com' is not subscribed to the 'toasters' list.
So...sorry for any inconvenience to individuals subscribed in this manner, but you'll have to subscribe individually in order to post to the list.
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