[MLB-WIRELESS] spam mail

[evilbunny]

Hello Mark,

Spam to date hasn't made it to any sydney mailing list, threats of
legal action, which under our laws is also criminal, along with spam
assassin and rbl lists work nicely to date...

we don't have no stinking spam problem ;)

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Best regards,
 evilbunny                            mailto:evilbunny at sydneywireless.com

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Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 5:15:56 PM, you wrote:

MD> Hi Rick,

MD> I don't run this specific list, but I do run several others, so here's 
MD> my (unofficial) take...

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

MD> regards,
MD> Mark

MD> 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
>>
>>
>>To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at wireless.org.au
>>with "unsubscribe melbwireless" in the body of the message
>>
>>
>>  
>>


MD> To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at wireless.org.au
MD> with "unsubscribe melbwireless" in the body of the message
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