INTERNAL REVENUE/FUNDS DEPARTMENT

[韓家標 Bill Hacker]

Doug Barton wrote:
> meta-comment: please don't respond to spam or inappropriate messages on 
> the mailing lists. It just adds pointless volume.
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, 韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote:
> 
>> Can someone set the MTA / MLM to reject that sort of garbage?
> 
> The mailing list managers do a heroic job of holding back the spam tide. 
> If you had any idea how much spam gets blocked before we ever see it 
> you'd nominate them for a medal.
> 
> Doug
> 

That they do!

And I have a *very* good idea how much gets blocked - a prime use of our FreeBSD 
servers is for Exim-PostgreSQL MTA's.

I'm sure a medal or three would be very much in order - though more sleep, and 
watching botnet traffic drop off the radar would probably be more welcome.

But if we could have but 'one wish' - it would be end-user communities who 
understood that, yes, we DO need to block some folks they consider legitimate 
correspondents - because they are violating the most basic of requirements.

Bill