Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0011020113230.22726-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011020230360.31202-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 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.
Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet
use local lists to distribute this list among users -- this is why there
are messages with no to:/cc: hackers@freebsd.org in the first place. And
it will do nothing for autoresponders because autoresponder may happen to
be subscribed directly just like anything else. So, real solutions are:
1. configure all autoresponders to never send anything with
Precedence: bulk in the header,
2. close the list, as it was proposed.
Considering that "offenders" are running their scanners as root, or even
on Windows, first solution seems to be impossible to achieve.
--
Alex
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