Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:48:54 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: Non English Spam Message-ID: <200610151349.10951.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <4532A339.80104@locolomo.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1061016013445.21409C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <45328A41.9040904@locolomo.org> <4532A339.80104@locolomo.org>
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--nextPart8493952.mM0kM0PcbW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:08, Erik Norgaard wrote: (SNIP) > Well, anyway, this only serves to enlighten another problem: That even > if you find the solution to rejecting non-Roman non-FreeBSD mail while > accepting everything from the list, people replying in those character > sets will see their mail rejected because their mail doesn't go through > the FreeBSD server. > > To avoid the above, we should recommend subscribers to the list to > change their reply to when writing to the list, or configure their > subscription such that mx2 will send mail regardless of the recipient > being in the To/Cc header, or recommending users only to include the > list as recipient... but we were against imposing rules - right? > > Wouldn't it be nice if there was a reliable way to determine legitimate > sources...? The freebsd-current@ list is doing that after a fashion. If I forget to cha= nge=20 my mail identity to freebsd@alaskaparadise com, I get sent to the moderator. The freebsd lists are almost spam free, and I would love to see exactly how= =20 they are doing it. Do any of you know if it's documented anywhere?=20 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart8493952.mM0kM0PcbW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFMqzWR5sEeCt9j00RAnvdAJ0SIVRHXAFv/Ljh5xbf8BAH7scczwCgjEMM m6WP7J11idC2v7GyfW5jcpQ= =UWKF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8493952.mM0kM0PcbW--
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