we have to do something about this spam

[Blair Sadewitz]

I was just reading the list archives, getting progressively more
annoyed by all of the spam there. Then I return to my inbox (yes, I
have special metaphysical abilities that let me actually RETURN to my
inbox) to find more of it!

Does the netbsd majordomo box have any kind of blacklisting set up? I
can only speculate at what kind of misanthropic twit could ever think
there was money in spamming a not-for-profit volunteer OS mailing
list.

Regards,

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[Rui Paulo]

Post by Blair Sadewitz
I was just reading the list archives, getting progressively more
annoyed by all of the spam there. Then I return to my inbox (yes, I
have special metaphysical abilities that let me actually RETURN to my
inbox) to find more of it!
Does the netbsd majordomo box have any kind of blacklisting set up? I
can only speculate at what kind of misanthropic twit could ever think
there was money in spamming a not-for-profit volunteer OS mailing
list.

We have greylisting in action AFAIK.

P.S.: A more proper mailing list for this question would be netbsd-
users.

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[Martin Husemann]

Post by Rui Paulo
We have greylisting in action AFAIK.

We have a lot of well-working spam protection, but the archives do not
get the full protection (I don't know the details why).

Martin

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[Manuel Bouyer]

Post by Martin Husemann

Post by Rui Paulo
We have greylisting in action AFAIK.

We have a lot of well-working spam protection, but the archives do not
get the full protection (I don't know the details why).

We should switch all of the lists over to "subscribers only can post"
and add in a special list so people with more than one address can
subscribe to a "never gets mail but is allowed to post" list. Then the
spam will all go away completely.

I think at last the netbsd-help and gnats-bug list has to stay open.
We shouldn't make it more difficult for our users to get help.

[Hauke Fath]

At 15:31 Uhr -0500 21.1.2007, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

[Complaints about spam, and closing the lists as a response]

However, every time this is suggested a lot of people get angry and
nothing happens.

This will probably make me part of the problem, but anyway: Much worse than
the occasional UCE mail on the NetBSD lists is the odd complaint, sent to a
random list. It usually spawns yet another discussion many times the volume
of the UCE mail that caused it.

From where I stand, whatever the NetBSD admins have in place for filtering
mail does a pretty good job. Subscribe to a sourceforge list for comparison
- the pkgsrc-wip-* lists will do nicely.

Given the amount of spam that I get daily, closing the NetBSD lists for
non-subscribers IMHO solves a non-existing problem.

hauke

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[Jeremy C. Reed]

Maybe the list server should email a non-subscriber back and ask them to
reply back to allow their posting to be accepted.

The DragonFly lists do that (but I don't like how I have to manually edit
the subject line though).

Jeremy C. Reed

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