Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:45:43 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postal Notification Message-ID: <5457DB67.4010002@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20141103182021.5748167b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20141103140638.60B9617470E@scprod53.upprovider.it> <5457A6D1.5050209@gmail.com> <5457AA1D.5070602@hiwaay.net> <20141103182021.5748167b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 11/03/14 11:20, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:15:25 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 11/03/14 10:01, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> I 2nd this motion. The #1 source of SPAM which makes it to my home PC >> (this FBSD 9.3p3 box) is crap going to this list, which I have >> whitelisted :-/ .... > This mailing list is public. It also is not being moderated. > However, you can easily filter spam on client side, for example, > if the messages contain HTML garbage, or certain keywords are > met. Filtering for certain X-Mailer strings is also possible. > If you don't want to do this in your MUA, you can use your > MTA to do this at an earlier stage (either by deleting the > offending messages, or simply denying to receive them). > > In my opinion, this is not even worth the time, as there > is only _few_ spam on this list (compared to others!) which > only requires a single DEL keypress to be deleted. In most > cases, the subject is fully sufficient to determine if this > action is required. This opinion illustrates that I'm a lazy > person who doesn't receive thousands of messages per day to > be bothered automating anything. ;-) > > > My ISP allows (Linux RHEL 5.n) shell access to their servers, & I have a 2100+ line procmail file doing *mucho* detailed keyword/header filtering. Filtering HTML would lose anyone I buy something from on Ebay or stuff from my brokers. My ISP has some pretty aggressive/effective filtering as well. I only get 2-3 SPAMs/month, but unfortunately almost *all* are from crap that leaks through on this list. Could the list white-list anyone who subscribes, then eliminate any SPAMmers once they rear their ugly heads ? I don't know what the solution is, & I think the list is fabulously managed overall, but these SPAMs are irritating .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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