Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:11:32 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011021109220.32075-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0011020113230.22726-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Alex Belits wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > 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. > > Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet > use local lists to distribute this list among users -- this is why there > are messages with no to:/cc: hackers@freebsd.org in the first place. And > it will do nothing for autoresponders because autoresponder may happen to > be subscribed directly just like anything else. So, real solutions are: I'm confused. Some people can't send mail to the lists directly? And it would fix the auto-responder problem, since auto-responders tend to answer to the From: field, which would never be the mailing list's name. > 2. close the list, as it was proposed. If the icky freebsd@whatever.de address was subscribed, it would've still gotten onto the list (though I suppose the virus scan response would've been stopped.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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