Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-18 Thread Matthew Hawkins
Kern Sibbald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, everyone is entitled to his opinion. And thanks to the internet, we can all express it ;) > In my case, it is not that I cannot be bothered to subscribe as you seem > suggest. This should be obvious from the amount of time and effort I put into

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:37, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > Kern Sibbald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What I don't like about this is that some users (such as myself) don't > > want to subscribe to lists even to get help > > If you got software for free, and you can't even be bothered to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-18 Thread Matthew Hawkins
Kern Sibbald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What I don't like about this is that some users (such as myself) don't want > to > subscribe to lists even to get help If you got software for free, and you can't even be bothered to do something as simple as subscribe to a free mailing list to receive f

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 16:36, Jo wrote: > Henry Yen wrote: > >The two opposing positions are: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > > >I have no particular opinion one way or another, but popular sentiment > >(including

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I get a good number of requests to change the list behavior to "mung" the Reply-To. It might perhaps help me avoid getting two copies of most emails I send that get answered, and help those that forget to use the "Respond to all", but as the first of the articles points out, it can cre

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Jo
Henry Yen wrote: The two opposing positions are: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html I have no particular opinion one way or another, but popular sentiment (including mailman's default settings) very much favor the first of the tw

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Henry Yen wrote: Moreover, other closed lists that I'm on occasionally get spam from listmembers whose machines are compromised (100.00% windows 'bots, so far). Or mail forged to be from list members - the actual checking is fairly dain bramaged in almost all lists and relies

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Dan Langille
On 17 May 2005 at 13:30, Jo wrote: > While we're at it. It would be nice to have the reply-to field set to > the list where the mail came from and not to the person who sent the > mail. Even though I switched to a mail client that has a send to all > button, I constantly forget that I have to p

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Henry Yen
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:30:56AM +0200, Jo wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >So, what I am suggesting as a *possibility* is: > >- Modify the bacula-users (and probably bacula-devel) list to be subscriber > >only. > > > >What I don't like about this is that some users (such as myself) don't want

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:54:39PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:18, Christoph Haas wrote: > > Can't you just set 'generic_nonmember_action' to 'reject'? That's what I > > do with my mailman lists. It just rejects emails from non-subscribers > > without administrative inter

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Grant
Kern, I vote for the subscriber only list. Generally speaking I do not subscribe to lists due to all the volume, but this seems like a pretty good lists, I have gotten many more questions resolved just by being subscribed, than posting to the forums and checking every few days or so. In this case

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:18, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:50:20AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > So, what I am suggesting as a *possibility* is: > > - Modify the bacula-users (and probably bacula-devel) list to be > > subscriber only. > > - Nightly purge all email held for ad

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Jo
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Notwithstanding my previous remarks about spam, I have noticed that there is more and more on this list. After thinking about it for a while, I can implement a script that automatically rejects all email by nonsubscribed users (it also rejects all other email held for

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa
tir, 17,.05.2005 kl. 11.50 +0200, skrev Kern Sibbald: > Hello, > > Notwithstanding my previous remarks about spam, I have noticed that there is > more and more on this list. After thinking about it for a while, I can > implement a script that automatically rejects all email by nonsubscribed >

Re: [Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:50:20AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > So, what I am suggesting as a *possibility* is: > - Modify the bacula-users (and probably bacula-devel) list to be subscriber > only. > - Nightly purge all email held for administrative approval -- i.e. all emails > from nonsubscribe

[Bacula-users] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Notwithstanding my previous remarks about spam, I have noticed that there is more and more on this list. After thinking about it for a while, I can implement a script that automatically rejects all email by nonsubscribed users (it also rejects all other email held for administrative app