From: Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 19 1999 - 10:30:02 CST
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
: > > (even if I already dislike its configuration, which rejects
: > > posts from non-subscribed addresses).
:
: > Personally, I think that configuration is better than receiving a half
: > dozen SPAM messages per week, as I do on some lists. I tend to unsub
: > from those lists fairly quickly. B^(
:
: I know that's the only reason to have the switch set like that. I am
: currently subscribed to more than 20 active mailing lists of which most are
: open to posts from anywhere, and I *never* receive any spam mails from them.
: I do receive quite a lot of spam from other sources though.
For the sake of discussion, I wanted to throw in my 2 cents...
There are ways to avoid getting spam on public (open) lists. I run
several lists on our server and I have yet to get spam on any of them.
And I can say the same about any other list that I'm subscribed to.
What I do end up doing a lot of times though, when I do find out
about a particular site that frequently sends out spam (such as AOL as
they recently started doing that rather often), I end up setting up a
block in our MTA, instead of generating reject rules for users. At the
same time, I do leave certain parts open for perfectly sane emails from
people we do know at such domains to come through (using a different MX
server).
Now, I understand not all of us have access to our MTA's to
inflict such damage, but I just wanted to make a point that you don't
always have to block everything/everyone from a particular domain, or that
matches a particular regexp - there are ways around it and frankly,
sometimes putting an extra efford in to solving the problem will make
everyone else happy. Blindly blocking something/someone without
consideration is just not fair for all parties involved.
Now, can we go back to discussing HyperDev, or do I have to start
a new list called 'we-all-bitch-because-we-have-the-right-to' ? <smirk>
AMK4
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