on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:50 PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:37:44PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > >>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes: > > > > Matt> The only measure that seems to work is restricting list postings to > > Matt> subscribers only. Unfortunately, this is also a major inconvenience for > > Matt> those who use the list legitimately. > > > > I would not go so far as to say that is the _only_ measure > > that works. I have had very few leaks, using a combination of > > mailagent, incorporating spamassassin and razor feedback, along with > > a home grown spammers lists. > > I looked into spamassassin shortly after I sent that message, and I am > pretty pleased with it (though it seems to regularly mis-flag messages on > debian-bugs-dist due to #131317). Create a whitelist rule to bypass this. > But the messages still need to be filtered, and it can't be 100% (or even > 99%) accurate, so that dropping messages on the server side is not an > option, and the human subscribers would still have to sift through the > messages. I'd say a suitable bounce, indicating a potential spam, with an invalid return address, might address many of the concerns here. A very small handful of newbies would be rejected, and they would be informed of same, with possible steps to repair the issue. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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