HEADS-UP: Mailing list trolls

[Terry Lambert]

Paul Robinson wrote:
> We're getting a lot of traffic at the moment on -chat and other lists (I've
> seen something on -hackers) from listservs. Ignore it all - I'm working
> through the unsubs until the FreeBSD postmaster's wake up in a few hours. It
> unfortunately means we're going to see lots of crappy mails for the next few
> hours whilst the 14-year olds try and grow up.
> 
> I don't work on FBSD, I don't have commit, I'm just fed up of receiving crap
> as somebody else's idea of a joke. Happy to liase with postmaster@ if
> they're taking this to list managers with a view to get the originator's
> account killed at their local ISP.


A clean way of dealing with this would be to modify the mailing
list software to not transit any email with "List-" headers or a
"Precedence: list" or "Precedence: bulk" header.

-- Terry