Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:49:13 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ongoing influx of SPAM into the lists. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901082044360.31318-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <3695D746.82223F3F@tdx.co.uk>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > > I have refrained from whinging about each & every bit of spam that ends up in > > these mailing lists, as it usually just adds to the noise. Now, I've had a > > gutful. Can we please move it to subscriber only postings? > > > > Stephen > > Only if we have to? - I know a few people who have 'intermittent' net access / > freemail accounts, and have to make do... > > I've looked through the headers, and mailed the ISP's involved (including the > ones that promiscuously relay) - I'd suggest a few more people do that first The spam content of the freebsd lists is actually quite low. I subscribed to fetchmail-announce and got spammed through there 6 times during the first night (all ended up in the bit-bucket thanks to procmail). That's an example of what happens on an unfiltered mailing list :-) (I think f-a has since been closed to posting). I also always complain to the systems which originate/relay spam (except when it's obviously a purchased domain owned by the spammer, in which case his upstream provider), and usually get results (at least, according to the automated feedback I get :) I'd be interested to hear statistics of how much mail gets bounced off the hub spam filters.. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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