Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:20:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <199710202020.NAA17269@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971020124951.28888B-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Oct 20, 97 12:53:15 pm
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Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > > One thing that might help is possibly assigning handles to email addresses > on freebsd.org like > > 189291@freebsd.org = jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org > > and only allowing mail from other handles on that list > to be redirected through freebsd.org to the mailer > > It would be much less likely for a spammer to attack because they would > half to attack from a subscribed account. > > Or something like this... > while this is correct, it defeatss on of the purposes of the mailing lists...to provide quick answers to users questions. and it does not prevent people from subscribing and spamming the lists. sendmail.cf blocked 14 spam messages today. jmb
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