From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 8 16:50:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19822 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19727 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:49:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA29293 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:18:50 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA03871 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:18:58 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:18:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. Message-ID: <19990109111858.D96705@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901080951.RAA04160@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian W. Buchanan on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:51:53AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 2:51:53 -0800, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > >> I have refrained from whinging about each & every bit of spam that ends up in >> these mailing lists, as it usually just adds to the noise. Now, I've had a >> gutful. Can we please move it to subscriber only postings? > > I have a suggestion that would accomplish the same goal but still allow > people to post from a different address than they subscribe to: > > Filter posts that do not fit at least one of these criteria: > - From: header contains an e-mail address subscribed to the list. > - To: or Cc: header includes the list's address. > > As most spam is bulkmailed without changing the To: header for each > recipient, this will filter out 99% of the spam, while still allowing > non-subscribed people to post, so long as it isn't a Bcc. Acceptable > compromise? What happens to the rest of the messages? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message