On Sat, Jan 03, 2004, Brian Johnson wrote: >Why not make it subscriber only. Why be different than everybody else?
I run several mailing lists that aren't subscriber only, but don't get nearly the level of spam that this one does (and it's even running an old version of majordomo). The spam levels are low through a combination of fairly draconian RBLs, spamassassin, and a fairly large selection of header and body patterns that are checked before sending messages through to the majordomo resend program. Anything getting through the RBLs and matching the patterns is forwarded to me for approval. Any attempts to spam the lists gets the connecting IP address added to a local RBL that's normally reserved for sites that have attempted to crack systems I manage so are blocked from any attempt to connect to any services on these sites. We also have postfix configured to reject any mail from sites with no reverse DNS which has proven very effective with almost zero false positives (and since AOL is now doing this, it's much easier to get through to ISPs to get their DNS fixed). One major problem I've seen recently is the growth of spam messages consisting of a paragraph of random words with a single URL in the body. These aren't caught by spamassassin, or most of the other filters. The good thing about them is that they're typically small. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?'' -- Patrick Henry June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
