Re: antispam measures ...

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > [btw, I've already had some complaints from people on other mailing
> > lists that the antispam measures were a bit too strict ... RSS,
> > ORBS, RBL, a list of spamming email addresses (auto-updated daily)
> > and about a screenful of regexps in majordomo.cf ...]
> 
> Don't use ORBS, it's a very poorly run database.

ORBS is quite good, as long as you know how to use it.

Entries resolving to 127.0.0.4 (unscannable netblock) aren't
blocked from sending mail to this list.

> All you have to do to really "lock" it down is either
> 
> a) allow only posts from subscribers
> b) moderate the list

a) is unacceptable

b) is ok since we have one volunteer (Brian Behlendorf)

regards,

Rik
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