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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'DJ Delorie'" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: members-only option?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:57:27 +1000
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The "technology" sounds ideal!

I don't quite understand the purpose of the "members" list, however.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DJ Delorie [SMTP:dj AT delorie DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:59 PM
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	members-only option?
> 
> 
> Ok, I've got the technology almost in place to limit posts to "members
> only".  To make it easier for me, "members" are defined as any
> subscriber to *any* of my lists (i.e. a subscriber to opendos-digest
> or djgpp can post to opendos).  If a non-member posts, they get a
> reply (well, maybe ;) explaining the situation and including a copy of
> their original email so they can resend it.  There is a new "members"
> mailing list (you can't send to members AT delorie DOT com but you can
> subscribe to it) for those of you who wish to use a fake email to post
> with (i.e. subscribe your fake email to the members list so that
> you're now a "member" with that email address).
> 
> I have not yet enabled it for any list.
> 
> This does not change any of the other existing filters.
> 
> Comments?