From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 5:12:21 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 05:12:17 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (unknown [202.169.133.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A59737B6D0 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from suresh@localhost) by mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/mjollnir-1.0) id f04D7Nk25392 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:37:23 +0530 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:37:23 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated. Message-ID: <20010104183723.A25373@oyeindia.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010104101456.A77019@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:04:01AM -0400 Organization: Hopelessly Disorganized X-Operating-System: Linux mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com 2.2.18 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Hermit Hacker rearranged electrons thusly: > We run Majordomo2 over here, which has subscription options, one of which > is a -nomail option that allows someone to subscribe from an address, but > not receive email from the list to it ... so they can post from news and > it will get to the list, or post from a different adddress they receive > from ... If this box is running mj2, a much better alternative is to set "posting aliases". Basically "send all posts to me at foo@bar, but don't mind if I post using baz@qux" > It does require someone to actually approve messages for those that aren't > subscribed, but, again, with Mj2, there is a concept of multiple owners, > so you could have two moderators assigned to a list making sure that no > spam gets through, if the load warranted it ... Leaving open to post lists is a magnet for spammers, and putting each spammer into your access.db is just doing what Hansje Brinker did some few hundred years ago when he stuck his finger into a dike to stop the sea coming in :) Now, if this list would also use the RBL and DUL it'd be great (it would give several people a rapid clue that their mailservers are being abused by spammers - and as for the DUL, direct to MX is a favorite spammer tactic) :) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet efn org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message