From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 23:29:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nwcst339.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst339.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2ED037B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 23:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spl1t_h0r1z0n@usa.net) Received: (qmail 19259 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Jul 2001 06:29:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20010716062934.19258.qmail@nwcst339.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.84 by nwcst339 for [165.212.15.106] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.18.03B) on Mon Jul 16 06:29:34 GMT 2001 Date: 16 Jul 2001 00:29:34 MDT From: J S To: Morsal Roudbay , Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: [Re: spammers] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.18.03B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 quit whining about someone else not doing what you want. take a few minu= tes, read the headers to determine what service provider they are using to sen= d the mail, then forward the email to abuse@theirisp.net. blocking them at the= receiving end is only a partial solution, they are still able to spam. = joshua Morsal Roudbay wrote: > 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 admi= ns 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 op= en, and > > for a good reason too. > > = > > The procmail solution (or, since FreeBSD.org used Postfix, a table-dr= iven > > 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 somethin= g like > > that. He has other things to do in his every day life except for edi= ting > > 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 Joshua Smith, CCNA Data Center Technian USA.NET joshua.smith@corp.usa.net "Walk with me through the Universe, And along the way see how all of us are Connected. Feast the eyes of your Soul, On the Love that abounds. In all places at once, seemingly endless, Like your own existence." - Stephen Hawking - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message