From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 24 7:32:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B7137B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16265 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:32:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24221 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.105.232]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GCAVP100.7JG; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:17:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE58AF6.4682DCB6@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:17:26 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Click on to meet someone you Click with References: <3AE3753C.E82BCB03@eproduct.org> <20010422201232.A93750@cec.wustl.edu> <02dd01c0cb94$0ccc7c60$931576d8@inethouston.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > > > Also remember that a great deal of spam (at least most of the stuff that > > comes to me) has my name as a greeting in the body, or in the subject > > line. It would be trivial to automate the process of adding > > [freebsd-stable] to the front of the subject line when the message is > > sent to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org. This would have us all working extra > > for no reason. > > I find that the most effective way to deal with spam is look at the headers > and mail abuse@ every server in the list. I find that most isps take care > of it(or atleast say they do) I think someone mentioned this. Once people > started to get their accounts deleted a few times, they might stop it > One thing I've found that is fairly effective is to "bounce" spams back as undeliverable. A lot of times the spammers just ignore the bounce (they get 1000s of them no doubt) but there is a chance that they will take your apparently dead address off of the list. The big danger is compltely broken spam agents that consider ANY response a good response. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message