Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:18:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. Message-ID: <19990109111858.D96705@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901080248230.93209-100000@smarter.than.nu>; from Brian W. Buchanan on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:51:53AM -0800 References: <199901080951.RAA04160@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901080248230.93209-100000@smarter.than.nu>
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On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 2:51:53 -0800, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > >> I have refrained from whinging about each & every bit of spam that ends up in >> these mailing lists, as it usually just adds to the noise. Now, I've had a >> gutful. Can we please move it to subscriber only postings? > > I have a suggestion that would accomplish the same goal but still allow > people to post from a different address than they subscribe to: > > Filter posts that do not fit at least one of these criteria: > - From: header contains an e-mail address subscribed to the list. > - To: or Cc: header includes the list's address. > > As most spam is bulkmailed without changing the To: header for each > recipient, this will filter out 99% of the spam, while still allowing > non-subscribed people to post, so long as it isn't a Bcc. Acceptable > compromise? What happens to the rest of the messages? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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