At 17:09 8/25/2000 -0400, David Alex Lamb wrote:
>...
>Looking for some other patterns might be possible. Or maybe we ought to
>create a top-secret e-mail submission address for such requests, that we only
>give out to FAQ maintainers as part of the Approval message. I suppose
>faqs.org could supply a service that forwarded your messages to our regular
>queue and marked them with a top-secret Subject tag that we'd spot more
>easily.
A subject tag is a really good idea. It need not be top secret, but can be
openly publicized on this list and in your FAQ submission instructions.
Spammers and clueless people will not read and comply with the instructions
to include the special subject tag, but maybe some of us FAQ maintainers
might. You could then handle all of the email that was so tagged, first,
then, if you had any time left, wade through the rest of it all. If you
didn't have time to wade through the rest, you could simply answer all of
it with an autoresponder message requesting the subject tag be inserted and
the message resubmitted before moderator action would take place. You could
even have people insert different tags based on the action requested, if it
helped you handle the mail.
This could be a pain to FAQ maintainers, but it is much more likely to
happen than requiring all spammers to tag all of their email "THIS IS SPAM"
in the subject. :-)
Thanks for your work. :-)
_______
Michael Paul Johnson
http://ebible.org/mpj
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