NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

Shawn Lawyer wrote:

> As is known, I hate Spam.
> 
> About two years ago I came up with a simple way to eliminate Spam. I stopped
> collecting all traditional email and directed anyone who desired to
> contacted me to visit the contact section of my website. Here they were
> instructed to either login or apply for right to contact me electronically.
> This was a solution worked for fundamental purposes, stopping all Spam.
> 
> This under developed method for handling *email* didn't really take that
> long to manage, having to review applicants and read mail. The difficulties
> were not being able to receive acceptable automated lists such as NYPHP, and
> emergency emails from non approved clients.
> 
> Needless to say, I started collecting my email again. I feel though, through
> wide scale participation, all the hassle can be eliminated. It would require
> a WS type architecture for the mailing lists and a completely new standard
> for email retrieval and sending, but is certainly possible. Anyone up for a
> project? Heh.

Sounds like it'd be a nice addition for mega-mailing list nyphp has planned.  Hope you can make it to the meeting tomorrow and we can chat.

H