[MLB-WIRELESS] spam mail

[Jason Clarke]

Mark,

Discounting hotmail/yahoo etc (They're not worthy) accounts, what is
stopping people from checking the subscribed account?

*checks outlook express* I currently have 8 e-mail accounts that I routinely
check, I also have about 40 mail filtering rules.

This is not brain surgery I'm doing either.

My vote is to block any e-mail that's not part of the group. If you have
problems getting into the group, read the archives.

If you use a variety of e-mails to send to the group, simply subscribe all
of them.

Jason.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dorset" <mark.dorset at sun.com>
To: "rick" <mibz at optushome.com.au>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] spam mail


> Hi Rick,
>
> I don't run this specific list, but I do run several others, so here's
> my (unofficial) take...
>
> Stopping spam to a mailing list can be quiet difficult - often a lot can
> be filtered out, but not all. One simple way of fighting it would be to
> disallow those addresses not subscribed from being able to post to the
> list - the problem with this is that a lot of valid users have more than
> one email address and may use one of a variety of addresses with which
> to post something to the list. For them to have to change their mail
> settings in order to post to the list in order to match the list's
> strict guidelines could be seen as more than its worth, so setting a
> strict rule like that creates more headaches than it's worth. Some
> recent mailing list server software like Mailman can be quite clever
> though and disallow posts if the mailing list is not on the specific
> 'to' or 'cc' header (i.e. bcc's would not get through) and also restrict
> posts if the number of recipients exceeds a certain number (so posts to
> say 50 addresses including the mailing list are rejected). I haven't
> used majordomo (which is what this list uses) for a very very long time,
> but it wasn't great for my needs back when I last used it. I'm not sure
> how much better it is nowadays.
>
> regards,
> Mark
>
> rick wrote:
>
> >how come spammail can still sign up to the group? i still get spam mail
and
> >am disapointed that there isnt any failsafes to stop this?
> >
> >rik
> >
> >
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