From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 1:26: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060EA37B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA23022; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:28:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Greg Black , 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, 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message