From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 13:36:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B0115B4D; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA57915; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:36:03 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04081; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:35:59 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199905102035.WAA04081@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM In-Reply-To: Your message of " Mon, 10 May 1999 16:27:45 -0400." References: Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:35:58 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > There might be some resistance to this for all lists, but how about > just, say, current and committers? Hackers == maybe? I can imagine that there could be resistance; I just want to know what the reasons are. Perhaps there is a solution that could be constructed. I have been hugely sucessful in getting my owm mailbox cleaned up. At one stage I was receiving 50-70 spams _a_day_; it is now about 5 a week and dropping. I had to get pretty fascist, but my false-positive is very low (maybe 7 in total). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message