From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 1:54:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED2437B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA29rUp38563; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Greg Black , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <20001102105330.B37821@lucifer.bart.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:33:33AM -0600 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20001102 10:20], Mike Silbersack (silby@silby.com) wrote: > >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. > >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. To come back on my original message, it seems that the virus reporters sent their reports to freebsdlist@aubi.de which in its turn forwarded it to the list. So the guilt/blame actually lies somewhere else for a change. Drat, another missed chance at flaming Exchange. :) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message