From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 8 02:52:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06831 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06825 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA93224; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. In-Reply-To: <199901080951.RAA04160@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I have refrained from whinging about each & every bit of spam that ends up in > these mailing lists, as it usually just adds to the noise. Now, I've had a > gutful. Can we please move it to subscriber only postings? I have a suggestion that would accomplish the same goal but still allow people to post from a different address than they subscribe to: Filter posts that do not fit at least one of these criteria: - From: header contains an e-mail address subscribed to the list. - To: or Cc: header includes the list's address. As most spam is bulkmailed without changing the To: header for each recipient, this will filter out 99% of the spam, while still allowing non-subscribed people to post, so long as it isn't a Bcc. Acceptable compromise? -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message