From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 17 13:03:07 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 DA599C7D for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 13:03:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com (mail-ee0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AE7AE6 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 13:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f51.google.com with SMTP id e51so2489746eek.10 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 06:03:06 -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=Vi61nVqK5/DHEwAEKTvS9c/kPbHsW0p+k8uoL7mnQZ0=; b=KOcfNoTr5Yh0DN5MG6+mW/NEIatGBz9CAQPE33B4bUcpN4+l66GCYXKk0DPx37t4E8 FB82pSZ6Wq3ymu6s9r95PiVJgMtqyCZ85gJlc4C47LZ9YdIYgsFS1UXPdzrl6M2ARSMN uVLXO0HylZmD5exr6bUvFCWsAIMIYVHZ/5i9e5cstL0KC3iJuc1vU+PEQMC2O4Oot151 pja/tkrEkezribnbq1SLIacpRzoBhM2iYEXPDxaOFvrWj0jdkrv4EoT/XERHMb0d1yrA KG9BcsYd+pzyX8OtBzQuMtgf/ZUchKXqpC79zbHmX7rcSeOo0+sS15/S2Y28Pp60oho1 Dy7Q== X-Received: by 10.15.94.78 with SMTP id ba54mr31268938eeb.36.1368795784390; Fri, 17 May 2013 06:03:04 -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 s8sm18606741eeo.4.2013.05.17.06.03.02 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 17 May 2013 06:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Spam Filtering Message-ID: <20130517140301.38d772cc@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20130517084529.57f67259@scorpio> References: <201305110134.r4B1Yl8q089784@fire.js.berklix.net> <5195582D.10404@cran.org.uk> <20130517064233.7d34e4cf@scorpio> <51961A75.6060605@cran.org.uk> <20130517131932.03450167@gumby.homeunix.com> <20130517084529.57f67259@scorpio> 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 13:03:07 -0000 On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 > RW articulated: > > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 > > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Well, unless the reluctant subscriber is running an incorrectly > configured MTA, I don't see a problem with "backscatter". Now, if they > do have a maladjusted MTA, they have more problems then just > subscribing to a list. Out of Office replies, sieve rejects, anti-spam challenges etc