Ummmm, where do we draw the imaginary line? I own a domain, civileme.com which is at present not residing on a host but merely forwarded. At one time, I had it forwarded to usa.net, and I sentr my mail out from that address.
Then there is yi.org, the poor man's self-hosting aid. I have a mailserver running through that because the difference between a dialup 56K and a digital 56K connection with a static IP address here is $6,000 per year and the taxpayers don't need the extra burden. So would you block messages from farmhooligans.yi.org or nwarctic.yi.org just because anyone can get a yi.org address and send their current IP to yi.org and have the MX and CNAME and even nameservice forwarded?
I will be putting 15 users on linux in less than 40 days. They may be approaching this list for help. Their addresses will be hotmail or yahoo or excite or usa.net or possibly nwarctic.yi.org. Are we to exclude them because they do not have a better address?
I'm not trying to argue, just pointing out that this is something list owners have to wrestle with all the time. Exclusionary rules are two-edged swords. Case-by-case, such as unsubbing troll turkeys doesn't do much good, either, because they can come back, thrrough AOL or another mailservice or by one of the anonymous remailers out there.
Shoot, man. I'm just glad this troll doesn't know how to send HELO to mailservers and discover a few anonymous SMTPs to relay to the list then send a BUNCH of things to the list, slamming us with subscriptions and confirmations then blasting away, using his dummy accounts as the reply-tos and the list as sender so the bounced mail comes back to us and...
Well, this isn't supposed to be a course in mail-bombing<g>. Anyway, their setup on majordomo would probably prevent that stratagem.
Take care,
Civileme
Ken Wilson wrote:
Just a thought for all the good people at Mandrake and the
good people on this list. It might be in order to deny
access to this list to any accounts from any of the
anonymous mail services.I have seen these seen far too much abuse of these services
by spammers and other morons (not pointing my finger directly
at Rick Fry, who am I kidding, yes I am). I feel if the
interest in this list is genuine there is no need to hide
behind the curtain of an anonymous service and it would
free up the list from this kind of moronic abuse.Ken Wilson
Not as small 'l' liberal as I used to be.
-- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url .... Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
