Alan Burlison wrote:
> Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
>
>> Someone had before suggested that, if there was such a way, it would be
>> nice if any address subscribed to any opensolaris.org alias could post
>> to all others, but I don't know enough about our mailmain instance to
>> know
>> if such intelligence in the tool is possible.
>
> There's a tradeoff there. At present if spammers want to hit more
> than one list they have to subscribe to each of them individually. If
> we implement the suggestion above they only have to register,
> subscribe to one list and then they can spam them all.
>
That only works so far. Effective blacklisting can minimize the
effectiveness of such approaches, and ultimately, if the occasional spam
gets thru, its not the end of the world.
Do we have any normal spam filtering in place for these lists? That
can help too!
- Garrett
