From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 5 19:25:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14998 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 19:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smoke.marlboro.vt.us (smoke.marlboro.vt.us [198.206.215.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14990 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 19:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgull@localhost) by smoke.marlboro.vt.us (8.8.7/8.8.7/cgull) id WAA03036; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:25:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:25:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709060225.WAA03036@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> From: john hood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A quick note to those without DNS resolvable mail hosts. In-Reply-To: <26041.873509860@time.cdrom.com> References: <26041.873509860@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under Emacs 19.34.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > In order to combat the absolute flood of spam which has been coming > into my mailbox lately, I've gone to more aggressive sendmail filtering > which: I'll note that at least one reason for the absolute flood is all the mail->news gateways that the lists get piped into. My ISP is getting FreeBSD list messages in at least five separate "local" hierarchies, and I'm sure they're missing some. That's a lot of @ signs for the spammers to latch onto. --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]