On 09/01/13 09:21, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:52:18PM +0000, Alex Brooks wrote: >> I've just had a reply saying that nanog <at> >> nanog.org has been added to their "do not contact" list. That means, >> assuming their processes work, the address will no longer receive any >> emails from LinkedIn or their members though LinkedIn. > Those "processes" have been noticeably broken in the past. (Note as > well that even if they do work in this case, that won't stop spam to > other nanog.org mailing lists, current or future.) The best way to stop > the spammers at LinkedIn is to block their domain at the MTA, and that's > what I've recommended that the keepers of the NANOG mailing lists do. > >
And hope that non-mailing-lists on the same host don't need to see mail from that MTA? I'm amazed that the NANOG mailing list doesn't simply reject email from non-subscribed addresses. I didn't realise that this was so difficult, considering it's an out-of-box Mailman feature to be able to arrange exactly that. Mark.

