From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 10 16:56: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C852337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:56:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0219043EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18LvAR-000Dj8-00 for FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:56:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id BC9A9F11 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:56:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id EC406CE3 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:55:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 7837C225CE; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:55:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:55:53 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Spam decisions Message-ID: <20021211005553.GB495@raggedclown.net> References: <20021210073508.GB73284@raggedclown.net> <1649916519.20021210235811@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1649916519.20021210235811@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:58:11PM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste Cliff, > > Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 8:35:08 AM, you wrote: > > > Mmm..I finally put a blacklist entry on all domains ending in ".tw". > > This is something I swore off doing, but for months now I have been > > generating unknown user messages for mail from .tw registered domains. > > > So I have decided to REJECT at receipt all messages in said domains. > > So any genuine FreebSD users in Taiwan (for so I take .tw to be) ... > > sorry. > > > Would it be an (posible) idee to put genuine FreeBSD users on a white > list? > Yes, I am more than happy to do that. In fact several people on the BSD list seem to use ISP's that spammers love, they do not know their names, but they live on my whitelist, even if the rest of the .whatever is kicked. I hate doing this, it is really against my principles, but some robot spam program is just getting too irritating. So after many months I just resorted to brute force. If so many people didn't use free-mail like hotmail, lycos, yahoo etc. I would reject all the mail emanating from those sources. Unforturtunately many "legit" people do use them. Yahoo is particularly evil in this respect (and they run FreeBSD I believe .. hey !). Which brings me to an interesting question about privacy. I actually signed up to Hotmail long ago, but never once used it. I just thought it might come in handy someday. One day I came across a piece of paper while tidying up, and on it I had scrawled my hotmail details some years before. I logged into it and it was completely full and every single message was spam...despite the fact I had never sent a message through it and never told anyone to send me messages through it. So ... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message