On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > There's a middle ground. > > For reasons of our own, we keep some of our lists open to posts > by non-subscribers. > > A simple procmail front-end looks for "To:" or "Cc:" headers > mentioning the list. Since most spamware is too stupid to > put these in, or else it is using third-party relay to 10,000 > hapless victims, so a custom "To:" or "Cc:" is out of the > question, this excludes quite a bit of spam with one simple rule. Mailman supports this configuration out of the box, and in fact it is the default. I ran with it on my lists for quite a while, but got sick at directly targetted SPAM (one which had a valid To or Cc) going to my lists and I made them closed. alex ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
