[ADMIN] Hints on slowing spam volume to lists?

[Derek D. Martin]

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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