From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 11:30:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9CC37B40B for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b004.otenet.gr [195.167.121.132]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6BIU9H18485; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:30:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6BG9Ob51541; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:09:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) To: Morsal Roudbay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spammers References: <20010711092834.D46591@zigman.2y.net> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 11 Jul 2001 19:09:23 +0300 In-Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay's message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:28:34 +0200" Message-ID: <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morsal Roudbay writes: > That's what I have been doing Stephaine, but I'd like the list admins to do > it too so I wont have to get this much spam. Other list admins ban spammers > instantly... Well, apart from making the lists closed, and allow posts only from subscribed addresses, there is not much one can do. However, these lists are open, and for a good reason too. The procmail solution (or, since FreeBSD.org used Postfix, a table-driven block policy) might prove too much work for the postmaster. This is probably going to be a full-time job, if the postmaster chooses to do something like that. He has other things to do in his every day life except for editing Postfix configuration files and lookup tables. Using RBL or some other filtering method, that moves the burden of maintaining the list of blocked addresses off the back of the postmaster is also not the perfect solution. Still, users that have done nothing wrong can be blocked... This is more hairy than it seems :/ -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message