From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 2 14:49:35 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6D5DD2701 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from miucha.iecc.com (w6.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::4945:4343]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "miucha.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D37167A12 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 81401 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2017 14:49:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (64.57.183.18) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 2 Aug 2017 14:49:33 -0000 Date: 2 Aug 2017 14:49:11 -0000 Message-ID: <20170802144911.1457.qmail@ary.lan> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bourne.identity@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Ban on spam-sender domains from posting to freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:49:35 -0000 In article you write: >But considering that a lot of happy spammers merrily keep posting and >re-posting to f-q, is it not viable that repeat offences from the same >domain lead to that domain getting blocked in the FreeBSD site's own >mail server ? If fbsd would configure its lists to accept mail only from subscribers, most of the spam would go away. Approximately every other list in the world does that. I cannot begin to guess why they imagine that isn't effective. R's, John