[Samba] Re: nazi spam in German over list address

Ed Kasky ed at esson.net
Mon May 16 19:56:11 GMT 2005


At 11:19 AM Monday, 5/16/2005, Jason Pyeron wrote -=>
>And add the reply-to samba at samba.org, there is too much accidental off 
>list traffic.
>
>-Jason Pyeron
>
>On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ed Kasky wrote:
>
>>At 09:50 AM Monday, 5/16/2005, you wrote -=>
>>>On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>>If its not spam, then it will be virus that forge headers
>>>>and claim to come from a list members address.  There is no
>>>>silver bullet to solve this issue without moderating every
>>>>post.
>>>But if the policy was only subscriber posting then, we would know that 
>>>were the case with certainty, from the start. Then you would remove the 
>>>member's subscription until his/her computer is fixed.
>>>Once again, close this list to members only.
>>
>>Seconded.  With a closed list, virus and spam protection, it would 
>>certainly cut down on the amount of junk that gets posted and would be 
>>easy to identify the offender.
>
>instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Not a good idea for a number of  reasons best explained in:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html


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