[ADMIN] Hints on slowing spam volume to lists?
Derek D. Martin
ddm@pizzashack.org
Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:29:58 -0400
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:50:18AM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 01:35, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > How about bouncing ALL mail from non-subscribers, perhapse with a header
> > giving instructions on how to subscribe?
>
> That's not very productive, especially for gnucash-user, because lots of
> times non-subscribers just want to report a bug.
You could send bugs to a different address (I might argue that the
user list isn't where they should go anyway, but that's a matter of
preference really); i.e. set up a new list or create an alias for the
devel list such as bugs@gnucash.org.
> Also, bouncing spam is a bad idea, because it lets the spammers know
> there's a live person at that address.
If you're really concerned about that, you could send the bounces to
/dev/null. But I woudn't worry about that; many spammers use bad
addresses, and even if they didn't if they send the list another mail
it will just bounce too. It's unlikely that they'll make the effort
to subscribe just to spam the list (though I have seen this happen
once or twice on one list I've been subscribed to for about 4 years).
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