Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:00:35 GMT From: jshafer@triton.net (John Shafer) To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: jmb@hub.freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Spam blocking (was Re: Book - "Pulpit Confessions: Exposing The Black Church") Message-ID: <37257aa5.29474792@mail.triton.net> In-Reply-To: <371EEC27.EB030491@uswest.net> References: <47832.924771619@zippy.cdrom.com> <371EEC27.EB030491@uswest.net>
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The following is a message that I wrote earlier today, and accidentally sent it only to Darren instead of to the whole list: -----<begin forwarded message>----- On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 02:30:15 -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >>=20 >> > Someone please block this sucker! >>=20 >> Just done. I don't know who interaccess.com is, but they're now >> spam filtered. > >That reminds me, have any of the iName domains be filtered out? I >have my roaming address, gryph@mindless.com, but when I tried to >subscribe by that address, I never got a reply from majordomo. Good question. My normal email is jshafer@mindless.com, but everything I send to the lists from it disappears. I don't get bounce messages or anything. I really would prefer not to have to change my address settings here to reply to the lists... =20 -----<end forwarded message>----- It seems that mindless.com did indeed fall prey to the spam blocks. I do appreciate the spam-free nature of the lists, and realize it isn't an exact science, but I was wondering what our usual policy for dealing with spam was. Do we ban an entire site on the basis of one spammer? Do we make attempts to contact the ISPs in question first? When I first attempted to join -chat and -newbies I was confused because none of my messages received any response. This did _not_ make a very good first impression! I did just send a note to postmaster asking if an exception to the block on mindless.com could be made for my address. Otherwise it becomes prohibitively difficult to take part in list discussions, because first I have to change my mailer configs to use a different, non-blocked address & server, then change it back when I'm done. Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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