On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Peter Rauch wrote: > Douglas, You're being cryptic and piecemeal about your list's > configuration and your exact needs. He's told you more than you're giving him credit for. > We now learn you are on an > intranet; what does that mean? I.e., does that mean that only > folks with access to your intranet have "public" access to your > list's archive? To the web site providing access to archive. > Does that mean that "one idiot" is inside your > intranet? No. It means that the "idiot" has e-mail access to the Listserv server itself, which I presume is connected to the Internet. It wouldn't make any sense for it not to be. (Am I correct, Douglas?) > Who is the "general public" as distinct from the > "public" NOTEBOOK of your list? How are they "filtered"? They're not filtered; there's no way to do it except for a "special purpose" firewall; that seems to be his problem. > Why can't you simply subscribe each of the "few thousand members > of the Judiciary" (yes, it's work validating their membership > and ADDing them to the list, but you seem to have very stringent > needs that might warrant such work)? That's a good question. That solution would probably require some continuing maintenance work as well. However, it's the only sure way to keep the harvesters out. Dennis > > Give us the full deck when asking for advice, please. > Peter R. > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Douglas Palmer wrote: > > The website is on an Intranet and not accessible from the > > Internet. E-mail is not so easily controlled. The list needs > > to be available to a few thousand members of the Judiciary for > > research, but should not be available to the public because of > > a variety of privacy reasons. I have the general public > > filtered from subscription, but all it takes is one idiot like > > the one I am dealing with now to mine the list for spam. All > > he needs is the list name. >