Re: regarding spam

From: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn_at_e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:57:13 +0200


Hi Daniele!

On 12 Sep 2005, at 16:22, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:15:02AM +0000, Mario Kadastik wrote:
>
>
>> what do other list members think, maybe it would be wise to make
>> roottalk a closed list so that only members can post as the amount of
>> spam coming to this list is growing and the amount is already quite
>> substantial and a lot of these mails go through the CERN spam
>> filter so
>> it really annoys.
>>
>
> Related to that i think that if the post is closed to members only it
> makes much more sense to set the Reply-To header to the mailing list
> address itself. That makes easy to keep the comunication on the list
> where can be easily fruited by everyone.

Please consider this: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Concerning spam: the list is irritatingly flooded with that crap, so it would probably be a good idea to require that postings are made from subscribed addresses.

Ciao,

                     Roland

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