From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 8 17:19:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22701 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22696 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA95369; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:18:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. In-Reply-To: <19990109111858.D96705@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 2:51:53 -0800, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > > 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? Bounce 'em with a message stating the criteria required for a post to be accepted? -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message