From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 5: 2:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-195.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726C137B403 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 05:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mr@zigman.2y.net) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3A6631E87; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:02:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:02:00 +0200 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spammers Message-ID: <20010715140200.A17257@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <20010711092834.D46591@zigman.2y.net> <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3 [up 2 days, 26 mins, 1 user, load averages: 2.15, 2.19, 2.11] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se 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 On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 Hmm, I really wish someone could ban all those damned spammers. :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message