Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:49:58 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: List spam (was Re: "Please Add a Veterans Ring of Honor Link") Message-ID: <19981211004958.C24187@drwho.xnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19981210122734.A5678@palomine.net>; from Chris Johnson on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:27:34PM -0500 References: <4.1.19981209213746.009f1ee0@mail-r> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981210005907.2833A-100000@peanut.readington.com> <19981210002715.A7349@quark.feynman.com> <19981210090943.D1028@wolf.com> <19981210122734.A5678@palomine.net>
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On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:27:34PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 09:09:43AM -0800, Dan Mahoney wrote: > > I get *really* pissed when folks SPAM technical newsgroups. > > Can this list be configured to reject messages that don't have the list address > in either the To or the Cc field? This would have stopped *all* of the spam > I've received through this list in the last couple of months. I'm on lists that > are configured this way, but they're not majordomo lists, and I don't know if > this is on option with majordomo. ---end quoted text--- Yes... though my spam fighting tactics inspire fear in the hearts of all who spam :) I dropped this list a while back because of the spam that was getting through on it. My mailbox got a little more quiet for a while; periodically, I had a spammer's access dropped here and there, but now that I'm back on the list, I have another load of spam to deal with... Something needs to be done about it... -- drwho @ xnet.com, BOFH -- http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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