From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 8 20:43:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11352 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:43:01 -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 UAA11347 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:42:57 -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 UAA97218; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:42:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. In-Reply-To: <19990108221752.C26154@futuresouth.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 Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Didn't this come up not too long ago? > I, for one, find it useful when moving a thread (generally, to -chat), to > Bcc the original list so they know what happened, but since it's a Bcc no > one accidentally keeps it flowing on the old list. > I can't be the only one who does this. Sure, it's a convenience... but > I have giving up very useful convenience just because someone out there > has to be a jerk. Okay, so why not test for ANY freebsd.org list in the To/Cc? The To/Cc test is probably the most successful spamfiltering technique I've come across since spammers wised up and stopped using "Comments: Authenticated Sender is..." The spammers have to use a lot more bandwidth to defeat it, too. -- 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