From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 0:33:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-c.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.183.3.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD837B4E5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31226 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Nov 2000 08:33:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 08:33:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:33:33 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Greg Black Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Greg Black wrote: > Maybe it's time to close the list so that it only accepts > messages from subscribers. The spam was bad enough, but the > virus warnings are over the top. Sigh. > > -- > Greg Black > Join the fight against spam: http://www.cauce.org/ Just having the list ensure that it was in the To: or Cc: header would be sufficient in this case. Such a change would block relay spam as well. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message