From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 5 15:44:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02933 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02884 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA18304; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:43:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:43:31 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: lcremean@tidalwave.net cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing List Spam [ wasRe: Read this, and use appropriately...] In-Reply-To: <19990105183607.A6277@tidalwave.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It's possible to stop it like that yes, but I am specifically looking for ways I can take a proactive step in stopping spam from getting through on a mailing list. I think more and more spammers are using that as a way to bypass the traditional spam filtering techniques, and think I need to cut them off (at least on my system and others who may run Bouncer :) ) On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:19:26PM -0600, Licia wrote: > > > > If I configure my system to bounce mailling list messages from spammers, > > how would that likely affect the systems (and my subscriptions?) > > > > Should I simply add a "bit bucket" option to Bouncer to accept the mail and > > dump it to nowhere instead of bouncing it? > > I think we can nip this in the bud at the source. I checked the headers, and > the spam is coming from what appears to be a personal account (natch) on > Earthlink. The relevant info is here: > > Received: from htxgxvqm.getmoretraffic.com (CBL-panamerican.hs.earthlink.net > +[208.233.115.216]) > by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20058 > for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:26:15 -0800 (PST) > (envelope-from getmoretraffic@getmoretraffic.com) > > > > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet)| > | lcremean@tidalwave.net| http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message