A J Stiles wrote: > We seem to be getting a lot of spam being sent to the list lately. Can we do > anything to block it? Only accepting inbound mail from addresses on the > recipients list would be a good start. Also, since we're all Debian users > here, it might make sense to reject mail apparently coming from a > Windows-based user-agent. > > It was ironically endearing when it was adverts for pirated Windows software; > but I get enough pr0n, phishing and share scams elsewhere without them coming > through this list. > Um, no, no, no and no. Here is why those are all bad ideas: - List volume is huge and many people want to post without subscribing - All posts to this list do not originate by email, e.g., news groups - Lots of people post from work (where they only have windows) - Lots of people admin Debian servers, with Windows as a workstation OS - You can do those things (except for filtering based on subscribers) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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