From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 17 12:19:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84004280 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com (mail-ee0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABBF958 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id c13so2436791eek.11 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 05:19:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=raiiGWc1n5WW3x6XkX4w9BXdp1TvpZ3Z7ZBEnQExDcE=; b=LWOukV4U+FAJO0nYkOanlPDDK1lAFPoF64zRb/qv5NGBlyeHslg0Si9/AOOop3WDyq wI/JD7AOgvF1ot2P3c6Vzr1FTB4ooMtZpKNZvJKvdeNDobQ8NkQJQcFc0PL13NC9rjG0 0u/iB8WkXS70kd7odLxpQhv2Lpj9wfEJ6KPy03kFrtWZO70R5+aYPMjDxWSTqcchUWNx 6NPZA6s9tnQOUARpCx3kLeaR0mxkcsklI2Cgw3af3Mc8fE1rridVFmFNABTB5/dKrIzF TZ3CULNL2XIwlAk2ZQ9OG2VPDYRyQpQAr5RrMMKN9cjvJYpQtnCSXzJlvbIeS8sheZRk zLiQ== X-Received: by 10.14.221.67 with SMTP id q43mr82916582eep.1.1368793175850; Fri, 17 May 2013 05:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a5sm1097882ees.6.2013.05.17.05.19.34 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 17 May 2013 05:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Spam Filtering Message-ID: <20130517131932.03450167@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <51961A75.6060605@cran.org.uk> References: <201305110134.r4B1Yl8q089784@fire.js.berklix.net> <5195582D.10404@cran.org.uk> <20130517064233.7d34e4cf@scorpio> <51961A75.6060605@cran.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:37 -0000 On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote: > > Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she > > could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I > > would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skills > > to install and run FreeBSD to begin with. Lets be honest here. All > > that the present system does is act as an enabler for Spam > > merchants and Trolls. > > Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages > "PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!", apparently not > understanding how to manage their subscription? There's also the likelyhood that reluctant subscribers are less likely to take care about avoiding various types of backscatter. It seems to me that the level of spam in list is pretty much negligible.