Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:53:30 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <20001102105330.B37821@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011020230360.31202-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:33:33AM -0600 References: <nospam-3a011d507c023b3@maxim.gbch.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011020230360.31202-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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-On [20001102 10:20], Mike Silbersack (silby@silby.com) wrote: > >On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Greg Black wrote: > >> Maybe it's time to close the list so that it only accepts >> messages from subscribers. The spam was bad enough, but the >> virus warnings are over the top. Sigh. > >Just having the list ensure that it was in the To: or Cc: header would be >sufficient in this case. Such a change would block relay spam as well. To come back on my original message, it seems that the virus reporters sent their reports to freebsdlist@aubi.de which in its turn forwarded it to the list. So the guilt/blame actually lies somewhere else for a change. Drat, another missed chance at flaming Exchange. :) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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