Postal Notification

[Julian H. Stacey]

Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 11/3/2014 8:01 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> > Is there a way to PREVENT such spam???
> 
> The spam was sent through the mailing list.  There is no way to stop 
> spammers from abusing mailing lists unless you make the list closed 
> access (which would utterly defeat the point of the FreeBSD MLs).

That's painting it simple. There's various mail list types on @freebsd,
inc. eg: Announce; Subscribers Only; Moderated=Censored jobs@; [etc?].

questions@ has discussed before if we should require subscription,
(& if so, to reword /etc/motd to tell posters to subscribe first); 

A majority who expressed a preference did not want subscription required.  
(I was with a minority who did want it).


> FreeBSD mail admin(s) actually do a pretty good job.  These are very 
> old, very well known open lists and the spam rate is very low.

Yes. Thanks to postmaster at freebsd team :-)

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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