From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 27 8:35:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2817737B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idealab.com (il-la.la.idealab.com [63.251.211.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBE6C43E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@idealab.com) Received: (qmail 30128 invoked by uid 1085); 27 Aug 2002 15:35:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 15:35:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:35:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Cahalan X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re[2]: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only In-Reply-To: <189103381795.20020827192113@mail.ru> Message-ID: <20020827082846.Q4057-100000@erie.pas.lab> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So, if this plan turns into reality, this subscriber will be forced > subscribe 2 times. Not necessarily, (s)he can merely subscribe with an email address that is universally accessible and read -security there, or forward their work/home email to the other location and spoof their own email address if they're replying from the "wrong" location. > So, in my opinion, much better looks idea to keep blacklist of spammers IPs > on, say, mx1.FreeBSD.org, and reject ALL letters from these IPs. What about spammers that don't have static IPs? I like Mark's idea of making the list subscriber-only. As has been pointed out, it _is_ a discussion list, so people interested in using it should be subscribing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message