From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 13:20:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepE.post.tele.dk (fepE.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109E637B416 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnold.neland.dk ([62.243.77.140]) by fepE.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011209212038.RWKK25405.fepE.post.tele.dk@arnold.neland.dk>; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:20:38 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB9LLvQ59721; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:21:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:21:57 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Spam and this list In-Reply-To: <20011207201706.GA13994@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <20011209220450.L52959-100000@arnold.neland.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > Is it not time to make this list open to subscribers only ? > That may help cut the spam. > Get rid of the newsgroup reflection of this list and > getting the freebsd.org site search for the archives sorted > out would also be a good idea. > I am fed up tracing the headers, finding the apparent source > of spam and getting unsatisfactory auto-responder replies > back (or no reply at all). How about using dnsbl, or whatever it is called in postfix? Depending on my mood, I report much of the spam to spamcop.org. and it often reports the servers blocked as open relays. I use bl.spamcop.net, inputs/outputs.orbz.org and relays.ordb.org I think mail.freebsd.org should use this too. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message