Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 13:47:18 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please configure this list to subscriber-only, was contact your bank immediately Message-ID: <20140531134718.2ca133b7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20140529175530.9492.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <20140529144617.6271902f@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140529175530.9492.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On 29 May 2014 17:55:30 -0000 John Levine wrote: > >> It=92s really becoming a PITA to stay on the list. > > > >It is really trivial to filter out. I use a separate address for > >lists and filter anything that lacks either an appropriate List-Id > >or an appropriate domain in a References header. The in-list spam is > >negligible. >=20 > Today there seems to be as much spam as real mail, and more meta-spam > than either. >=20 > Every other list I'm on limits posting to subscribers which stops the > spam dead. Nearly all the spam is just blasted out at random and the > list's address happens to be one of the million targets. It's very > rare in my experience for a spammer to go to the effort of signing up > for a list to spam through it. Have you checked the received headers to determine whether it's genuinely in-list? I'm only seeing a small amount of in-list spam in questions, comparable to the ports and chat lists which I think do require subscription.
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