OpenEuphoria

Re: Posting Messages to EUforum

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jan 01, 2004
• 387 views

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