[thelist] SPAM

Mark Groen mg at markgroen.com
Tue Nov 13 13:20:34 CST 2001


Like Rudy said, some of them are actually kinda funny. There's a nice
piece of Share/Freeware called MailWasher out there along with a good
article from a member on his own site about spam:
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/spam_fighting.shtml

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at members.evolt.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: November 15, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] SPAM


> The problem with only allowing email address subscribed to thelist
post
> is because a majority of the people here aren't subscribed with
exactly
> the address they post from. A couple examples:
>
> when i post from my work account, it shows up as djc at starkmedia.com,
but
> it actually comes from djc at mail.starkmedia.com
>
> someone at the university of nebraska is subscribed as
> foo at bigred.unl.edu - and their email appears to come from foo at unl.edu
>
> some people subscribe as evolt at domain.com or thelist at domain.com to
> filter email easier but post from joe at domain.com (matt warden and
> spinhead are good examples of this)
>
> forwarding - i have certain procmail recipies for my starkmedia.com
> account set up to forward anything from theforum list(for example) to
my
> members.evolt.org account and i reply from my m.e.o account
>
> those are a couple.. It's not so much that I'm dead set against this
but
> I tried it about a year and a half ago for a couple days.. We only had
> maybe 800 people on thelist back then and i was manually approving
> 40-60% of posts cus they were getting held. When people started
noticing
> that replies were comming way out of order and not nearly as
> instantanious as they do now, it seemed a little easier to stomach the
> random spams that come through..
> hopefully that clears things up a bit :)
>
> .djc.
>
>
> Madhu Menon wrote:
>
> > At 07:20 PM 11/13/2001, you wrote:
> >> we could close the list so that only subscribers can post
> >> i guess it will depend on the volume of crapola
> > So why don't we? I don't see any valid reason for allowing spammers
in
> > here!
> > And what are the benefits, if any, of keeping it open?
> >
> > Dan?






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