On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Michael Stucki wrote: > Hi all, > > due to a big spam amount, I have switched my lists to only accept mails from > list members. > > After to weeks of production use, I note that many people use a wrong email > address (not the one they used for the subscription). > > Therefore, I'd like to send a rejection response on all messages from such > non-members. > > My question is: Since spammers are non-mebmers as well, will their bots > understand my response as a validation (this address is being read) or will > he handle it as an error response and probably delete it from the list? > > What would you do? > > Thanks - michael > > >
They will see any response as a notice that there is something there to receive mail and to which more annoying spam can be sent. If this is a unix/linux system try MailScanner and SpamAssassin. That's what we did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Johnson |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator |Web: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~johnson NMR Center |Voice: 617.726.0949 Mass. General Hospital |FAX: 617.726.7422 149 (2301) 13th Street |Survival, all by it self, isn't worth it. Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA | Me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org