Why not a private news server?

[Roger Heflin]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, gabe wrote:

> In a private news server scenario, all messages are posted directly to our server,
> no other machines can forward msgs to us, headers cannot be forged, that means we
> have a log of IP addresses and can track down spammers ourselves (not that they
> will exist anyway).
> 
> We could even reply back with an assigned password when someone signs up, thus
> requiring a valid e-mail account to receive their password, but I do not think that
> would be necessary.
> 
> You must not understand what we are talking about.
> 
> Squash's post about a private news server not even requiring a uname/pswd and still
> not getting any spam sounds correct to me.
> 
> Gabe


Eventually the private news server would get some spam, just a very
limited amount.  The f-body group used to get spam 1-2 times a week
before they implemted having a valid eamil address to suscribe and
having a valid email address to post.   We would need to advertise the
lists somewhere and someone would find out about it, and they would
eventually send some spam.   So we would need to have a
username/password combo to make things resaonbably secure.   

			Roger