Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:02:00 +0200 From: Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spammers Message-ID: <20010715140200.A17257@zigman.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM %2B0300 References: <20010711092834.D46591@zigman.2y.net> <86lmlv4fd8.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:09:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> writes: > > > That's what I have been doing Stephaine, but I'd like the list admins to do > > it too so I wont have to get this much spam. Other list admins ban spammers > > instantly... > > Well, apart from making the lists closed, and allow posts only from subscribed > addresses, there is not much one can do. However, these lists are open, and > for a good reason too. > > The procmail solution (or, since FreeBSD.org used Postfix, a table-driven > block policy) might prove too much work for the postmaster. This is probably > going to be a full-time job, if the postmaster chooses to do something like > that. He has other things to do in his every day life except for editing > Postfix configuration files and lookup tables. > > Using RBL or some other filtering method, that moves the burden of maintaining > the list of blocked addresses off the back of the postmaster is also not the > perfect solution. Still, users that have done nothing wrong can be blocked... > > This is more hairy than it seems :/ > > -giorgos Hmm, I really wish someone could ban all those damned spammers. :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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