[vdr] Re: mailing-list broken?

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Sam, 2003-08-30 um 12.11 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:

> Don't you have an email filter that can handle this?
> After having received like 5 of these stray email, I configured our
> filter to just drop these and didn't get them any more since then.
> 

Yes, SpamAssassin and procmail, but creating a rule needs also some time
...

> > I think because of security reasons contact should only be possible by
> > ML and no way to automatically reply to a poster directly. If someone
> > wants to communicate by PM they can exchange their mail-addresses on the
> > ML.
> > 
> > But if you broadcast the addresses of the users you extradite them to
> > DoS-attacks (or crazy MTAs/filters).
> > 
> > You should keep in mind we're living in a virtual world in which you can
> > create 10000 DoS-mails by ease (or bug in mail-handler).
> 
> Still I find it useful to have the actual name of the sender in the mail,
> since I often look up older postings in my VDR-ML folder to check with
> problems that were posted earlier (as I did just moments ago with a posting
> by Gerhard Steiner). If the From: field would have contained only the
> list server, this would have been next to impossible.
> 

What about exchanging the mail-address with an unique ID (maybe a
checksum of the mail-address ...)?

There are also funny guys on other lists flooding the list with vacancy
replies.

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Rene Bartsch

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Mail:  rene@bartschnet.de



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