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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:03:39 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008471819.486aea@mired.org>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spam and this list
Message-ID:  <15381.30603.336885.866319@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <11088552@toto.iv>

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Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> types:
> How about using dnsbl, or whatever it is called in postfix?

Personally, I hate the bl vigilantes, but that's just me.

> Depending on my mood, I report much of the spam to spamcop.org. and it
> often reports the servers blocked as open relays.
> 
> I use bl.spamcop.net, inputs/outputs.orbz.org and relays.ordb.org
> 
> I think mail.freebsd.org should use this too.

We're already getting complaints from people because mail.freebsd.org
wants the reverse DNS to be set up properly. Blacklisting would just
make that problem worse, and not bring the spam to a stop.

Since -questions is what shows up on every copy of FreeBSD as "Send
mail here for help", so the harder it is for people to send email to,
the harder it is for newbies to get help.

As for the rest of the lists, going subscriber-only would help be
nice. But I've had trouble getting any kind of improvements on the
machines that FBSD.org runs on.

	<mike
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