On Friday 27 August 2004 23.48, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:06, David Olofson wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2004 21.08, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Why do we need to /dev/null messages from nonsubscribers > > > > then? > > > > > > because its 100% effective unlike the other methods. > > > > > > if they cant be arsed to subscribe then their messages arent > > > all that important. > > > > I totally agree. Enough spam leaks through my filters as it is, > > and I would rather not be on any lists that allow posts from > > non-subscribers. I've been on a few, and they all let spam (and > > viruses and similar crap) through every now and then. Even the > > closed lists do once in a while, one way or another. > > If any spam gets through your filters then you need better filters. > SpamAssassin properly configured will effectively eliminate spam.
Will try. I definitely need something serious here. Over the last few months, the situation has changed from "not much of a problem" to "plain ridiculous." > Besides, you shouldn't need spam filters at all. This should be > done on the mail server. My accounts are on a server with some spam filter + virus scanner solution, but it will either let some spam through, or start killing other mail occasionally. That wouldn't have been much of an issue if there was a way to have the server bounce "somewhat suspicious" messages with a nice "Please do not use HTML" (etc) message, instead of just throwing them away without telling anyone. :-/ //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- Audiality -----------------------------------------------. | Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. | | MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,... | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---