Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:57:19 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Mike Sanders <tmp1@freebsd.hypermart.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com) Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBvhELzue0ubWzw-M%2BeSA6bgXjfZ_D73SVHcBn3h06SqN1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140430101545.GA931@taco-shack.cow> References: <73354.1398734218@server1.tristatelogic.com> <535F1667.1050406@soliddataservices.com> <20140429114019.0eb3ce48@X220.alogt.com> <20140429124618.06d708ba@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140429204204.2e561935@X220.alogt.com> <20140429140123.GA910@taco-shack.cow> <20140429162810.76013a19@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140430101545.GA931@taco-shack.cow>
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Mike, > Which implies all list members email addresses are exposed > to the world at large? They are, at least to all those who subscribe to the list. > How else would an email address be > gained by spammers... If that's the case it needs to be changed. And how would you do that? Mail distributed by the list should not hold the sender address? > But back to the idea of a temporary quarantine for new posters, > here's my thinking... > > . create a procmail filter that directs new posters to > an appointed 'list-mom'. > > . list-mom reviews the first two emails that new posters > submit looking for BSD related content. > > . obvious offenders (pizza hut anyone?) are given the boot, > while legitimate posters are passed on to the list with > status now upgraded as legit (removed from the procmail > filter). > > Why would this not work? Because the spam is not being sent by the list, so a person can subscribe, receive posts, gather mail addresses and send spam from his own account. Which is exactly what happens here. Olivier > > -- > Mike Sanders > www: http://freebsd.hypermart.net > gpg: 0xD94D4C13 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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