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Date:      Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:02:00 +0200
From:      Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spammers
Message-ID:  <20010715140200.A17257@zigman.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM %2B0300
References:  <20010711092834.D46591@zigman.2y.net> <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr>

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> 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

Hmm, I really wish someone could ban all those damned spammers. :(

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