1. Posting Messages to EUforum
posted by: rds at rapideuphoria.com
In the past several months a lot of people
have been suspended from EUforum due to SPAM
filtering by their ISP's. Their ISP bounces
all e-mail from Topica, and after several bounces,
Topica suspends their subscription, which prevents
the person from receiving or posting messages.
Today Junko set up a Euphoria CGI program that
lets anyone post a message to EUforum, whether
they are subscribed or not. The message is sent
from "guest at RapidEuphoria.com". It goes through
the usual ListFilter mechanism, so I hope we
can block most of the nonsense that might be sent
by random Web surfers and spammers.
You can access this facility by going here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm
and clicking "post a message" in the box
on the left side.
In fact, I'm using "post a message" to send this message.
I hope it might also encourage new people, who aren't
committed enough to subscribe, to ask questions.
Regards,
Rob Craig
2. Re: Posting Messages to EUforum
On 31 Dec 2003, at 17:11, Guest wrote:
>
>
> posted by: rds at rapideuphoria.com
>
> In the past several months a lot of people
> have been suspended from EUforum due to SPAM
> filtering by their ISP's. Their ISP bounces
> all e-mail from Topica, and after several bounces,
> Topica suspends their subscription, which prevents
> the person from receiving or posting messages.
>
> Today Junko set up a Euphoria CGI program that
> lets anyone post a message to EUforum, whether
> they are subscribed or not. The message is sent
> from "guest at RapidEuphoria.com". It goes through
> the usual ListFilter mechanism, so I hope we
> can block most of the nonsense that might be sent
> by random Web surfers and spammers.
>
> You can access this facility by going here:
>
> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm
>
> and clicking "post a message" in the box
> on the left side.
>
> In fact, I'm using "post a message" to send this message.
>
> I hope it might also encourage new people, who aren't
> committed enough to subscribe, to ask questions.
I'd have thought it would have been better for RDS to host their own
POP3/SMTP server, if they were committed to maintaining a reliable listserv?
If nothing else, they send to RDS, RDS echos to Topica, and RDS does the
listserv relay itself.
Kat
3. Re: Posting Messages to EUforum
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:22:25 -0600, Kat <gertie at visionsix.com> wrote:
>On 31 Dec 2003, at 17:11, Guest wrote:
>> posted by: rds at rapideuphoria.com
>>
>> In the past several months a lot of people
>> have been suspended from EUforum due to SPAM
>> filtering by their ISP's. Their ISP bounces
>> all e-mail from Topica, and after several bounces,
>> Topica suspends their subscription, which prevents
>> the person from receiving or posting messages.
>>
>> Today Junko set up a Euphoria CGI program that
>> lets anyone post a message to EUforum, whether
>> they are subscribed or not. The message is sent
>> from "guest at RapidEuphoria.com". It goes through
>> the usual ListFilter mechanism, so I hope we
>> can block most of the nonsense that might be sent
>> by random Web surfers and spammers.
>>
>> You can access this facility by going here:
>>
>> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm
>>
>> and clicking "post a message" in the box
>> on the left side.
>>
>> In fact, I'm using "post a message" to send this message.
>>
>> I hope it might also encourage new people, who aren't
>> committed enough to subscribe, to ask questions.
Well, Rob, Junko, technically, well done.
However, I think there is something which is not really right about
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm, that I can't quite put my
finger on, (and as I've proved just recently that probably be 'cos I
be stupid... 
Something about:
"Join the list"
"search"
"read" "subscribe"
Fine, it might just be me, but I'd re-design that page if I were you.
Just a thought; no offence I trust.
Regards,
Pete
