Comments on: Mailing Lists? How Antiquated http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Uli Kusterer http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated#comment-258 Uli Kusterer Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:16:17 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated/#comment-258 Jay, I don't think there's much of a difference between your suggestion and what is already posssible if you employ server-side filtering combined with a decent user interface for that filter. You can already make a server block mail from certain individuals or certain lists. And if you've ever used any regular filtering, you'll also notice how inadequate they are for actually getting rid of the spam. Spammers have become increasingly sophisticated. The spammer of today creates Yahoo groups accounts, subscribes to oodles of lists, spams them, and abandons the account again. The same could happen with RSS. The spammer would simply create a new RSS feed, have it "aggregated" to the list, and resume spamming. Try all spammer tactics you know. They'll also be possible with RSS feeds, if they're used for two-way communication :-( Jay,

I don't think there's much of a difference between your suggestion and what is already posssible if you employ server-side filtering combined with a decent user interface for that filter. You can already make a server block mail from certain individuals or certain lists.

And if you've ever used any regular filtering, you'll also notice how inadequate they are for actually getting rid of the spam. Spammers have become increasingly sophisticated. The spammer of today creates Yahoo groups accounts, subscribes to oodles of lists, spams them, and abandons the account again.

The same could happen with RSS. The spammer would simply create a new RSS feed, have it "aggregated" to the list, and resume spamming. Try all spammer tactics you know. They'll also be possible with RSS feeds, if they're used for two-way communication :-(

]]> By: Teal Sunglasses http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated#comment-260 Teal Sunglasses Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:05:27 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated/#comment-260 <strong>RSS and email(ing lists) links and references.</strong> Links and references I've collected based on discussions going on around the net that I've used to build on some thoughts started here on RSS, email, mailing lists and the future of all this stuff... I've been reading and thinking about a lot of what's... RSS and email(ing lists) links and references.

Links and references I've collected based on discussions going on around the net that I've used to build on some thoughts started here on RSS, email, mailing lists and the future of all this stuff... I've been reading and thinking about a lot of what's...

]]> By: JayAllen - The Daily Journey http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated#comment-259 JayAllen - The Daily Journey Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:27:49 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated/#comment-259 <strong>RSS and email</strong> Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) has an interesting post about the replacement of RSS for email mailing lists and even RSS and email

Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) has an interesting post about the replacement of RSS for email mailing lists and even

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated#comment-257 Erik J. Barzeski Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:54:37 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated/#comment-257 Newsgroups suck. Very rarely do I talk to people who use newsgroups, but everyone uses email. The people who do use newsgroups bitch and moan about how hard it is to kill a thread (it gets renamed, blah blah blah) or an individual (they change their name, whatever). It's not the same thing. And archiving? As pathetic or worse than a mailing list, and most people don't even know how to get to a newsgroup's archives. Newsgroups suck. Very rarely do I talk to people who use newsgroups, but everyone uses email. The people who do use newsgroups bitch and moan about how hard it is to kill a thread (it gets renamed, blah blah blah) or an individual (they change their name, whatever). It's not the same thing. And archiving? As pathetic or worse than a mailing list, and most people don't even know how to get to a newsgroup's archives.

]]> By: Andreas Monitzer http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated#comment-256 Andreas Monitzer Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:36:51 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/22/mailing_lists_how_antiquated/#comment-256 Welcome to NNTP :) Welcome to NNTP :)

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