On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:08, Erik Norgaard wrote: (SNIP) > Well, anyway, this only serves to enlighten another problem: That even > if you find the solution to rejecting non-Roman non-FreeBSD mail while > accepting everything from the list, people replying in those character > sets will see their mail rejected because their mail doesn't go through > the FreeBSD server. > > To avoid the above, we should recommend subscribers to the list to > change their reply to when writing to the list, or configure their > subscription such that mx2 will send mail regardless of the recipient > being in the To/Cc header, or recommending users only to include the > list as recipient... but we were against imposing rules - right? > > Wouldn't it be nice if there was a reliable way to determine legitimate > sources...?
The freebsd-current@ list is doing that after a fashion. If I forget to change my mail identity to [EMAIL PROTECTED] com, I get sent to the moderator. The freebsd lists are almost spam free, and I would love to see exactly how they are doing it. Do any of you know if it's documented anywhere? Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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