Date: 11 Jul 2001 19:09:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spammers Message-ID: <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay's message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:28:34 %2B0200" References: <20010711092834.D46591@zigman.2y.net>
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Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> writes: > That's what I have been doing Stephaine, but I'd like the list admins to do > it too so I wont have to get this much spam. Other list admins ban spammers > instantly... Well, apart from making the lists closed, and allow posts only from subscribed addresses, there is not much one can do. However, these lists are open, and for a good reason too. The procmail solution (or, since FreeBSD.org used Postfix, a table-driven block policy) might prove too much work for the postmaster. This is probably going to be a full-time job, if the postmaster chooses to do something like that. He has other things to do in his every day life except for editing Postfix configuration files and lookup tables. Using RBL or some other filtering method, that moves the burden of maintaining the list of blocked addresses off the back of the postmaster is also not the perfect solution. Still, users that have done nothing wrong can be blocked... This is more hairy than it seems :/ -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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