From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 6 3:11:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEF537B406 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 03:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g46ABOVD039278; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:11:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g46ABNlh039277; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:11:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g46AACoI036004; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:10:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205061010.g46AACoI036004@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Matthew Dillon Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've Been Removed! References: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200205060013.g460DYn54044@apollo.backplane.com> ; from Matthew Dillon "Sun, 05 May 2002 17:13:34 PDT." Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:10:12 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think the lists should remain open. A perfect solution would be > to have the mail system keep a database of originators (From: and > the first Received: header). Whenever it sees an email from someone > not in the database it would request that the person acknowledge > that they really intended to send the email and, if they do, their > email goes through and they are added to the database (so it only > asks them once). How does that differ from subscription+autodeleting-list-content? > I've been contemplating writing such a beast for myself, since 90% > of the email I receive these days is spam. I'm sure others have > written similar things so I'm wondering if there is a solution out > there already. At some point I'm going to write mine (as a standalone > MX relay so it could be tied into any system), when I have more time > available. Existing mailing list managers can already do this. It effectively makes it easy to join the list, but not receive the list contents. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message