From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 5 05:39:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171A416A419 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 05:39:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (conducive.org [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C271413C4EA for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 05:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from cm218-253-81-177.hkcable.com.hk ([218.253.81.177]:62719 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Izmyo-000Ou1-CM for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:39:30 +0000 Message-ID: <47563992.2030605@conducive.net> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:39:30 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4755C403.1060902@conducive.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: INTERNAL REVENUE/FUNDS DEPARTMENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:39:32 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > meta-comment: please don't respond to spam or inappropriate messages on > the mailing lists. It just adds pointless volume. > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, 韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote: > >> Can someone set the MTA / MLM to reject that sort of garbage? > > The mailing list managers do a heroic job of holding back the spam tide. > If you had any idea how much spam gets blocked before we ever see it > you'd nominate them for a medal. > > Doug > That they do! And I have a *very* good idea how much gets blocked - a prime use of our FreeBSD servers is for Exim-PostgreSQL MTA's. I'm sure a medal or three would be very much in order - though more sleep, and watching botnet traffic drop off the radar would probably be more welcome. But if we could have but 'one wish' - it would be end-user communities who understood that, yes, we DO need to block some folks they consider legitimate correspondents - because they are violating the most basic of requirements. Bill