Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:43:31 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing List Spam [ wasRe: Read this, and use appropriately...] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105174134.18296A-100000@o-o> In-Reply-To: <19990105183607.A6277@tidalwave.net>
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It's possible to stop it like that yes, but I am specifically looking for ways I can take a proactive step in stopping spam from getting through on a mailing list. I think more and more spammers are using that as a way to bypass the traditional spam filtering techniques, and think I need to cut them off (at least on my system and others who may run Bouncer :) ) On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:19:26PM -0600, Licia wrote: > > > > If I configure my system to bounce mailling list messages from spammers, > > how would that likely affect the systems (and my subscriptions?) > > > > Should I simply add a "bit bucket" option to Bouncer to accept the mail and > > dump it to nowhere instead of bouncing it? > > I think we can nip this in the bud at the source. I checked the headers, and > the spam is coming from what appears to be a personal account (natch) on > Earthlink. The relevant info is here: > > Received: from htxgxvqm.getmoretraffic.com (CBL-panamerican.hs.earthlink.net > +[208.233.115.216]) > by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20058 > for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:26:15 -0800 (PST) > (envelope-from getmoretraffic@getmoretraffic.com) > > > > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet)| > | lcremean@tidalwave.net| http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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