On Monday 06 June 2005 11:09, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Due to the increasing volume of spam, I have now restricted this list to
> > member only posting.
>
> Good. My junk folder was filling faster than before during the last days...
>
> > All posts by non-subscribers will, unfortunately, be treated (at least
> > for the moment) automatically by a program. I'll try to send them back
> > to the poster with a message, but I'm not sure that works ...
>
> Don't do that. You can be almost absolutely sure that the sender
> addresses of spam are forged, and you would annoy many people. Either
> first try to filter spam (of course, you would do that and still allow
> non-subscribers to post if this were an option) or have the mail
> rejected when it is posted, so the upstream mailer has to decide what to
> do :-)
>
> Probably the best solution, though, would be to simply drop the messages
> and, to inform people of that, post a regular information notice to the
> list. And make a note in the manual.
At the risk of annoying some people, I prefer to try to inform real users that
their message has not been accepted -- sending back a rejection message is
what 99.9% of all mailers do anyway ...
--
Best regards,
Kern
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