Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 08:39:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Mailing list trolls Message-ID: <3EDB6FBE.F2597C3D@mindspring.com> References: <20030602104402.GE13771@iconoplex.co.uk>
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Paul Robinson wrote: > We're getting a lot of traffic at the moment on -chat and other lists (I've > seen something on -hackers) from listservs. Ignore it all - I'm working > through the unsubs until the FreeBSD postmaster's wake up in a few hours. It > unfortunately means we're going to see lots of crappy mails for the next few > hours whilst the 14-year olds try and grow up. > > I don't work on FBSD, I don't have commit, I'm just fed up of receiving crap > as somebody else's idea of a joke. Happy to liase with postmaster@ if > they're taking this to list managers with a view to get the originator's > account killed at their local ISP. A clean way of dealing with this would be to modify the mailing list software to not transit any email with "List-" headers or a "Precedence: list" or "Precedence: bulk" header. -- Terry
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