From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 17: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58D37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A764443E3B for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05752; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 02:06:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 02:06:08 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Stephen Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Um the increasing (and not stopping) spam issue on this list Message-ID: <20020803020608.B23202@student.uu.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:42:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:42:54PM -0400, Stephen Hovey wrote: > > do the list people utilize blackhole lists? It might help. I believe they do use blackhole lists and/or other spam-stopping measures on the list servers. As I understand it most of the spam that hits the servers never actually reaches the lists and what we see here is only a small part of the spam that is sent to the list. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message