Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Pearson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Jeremy Morton wrote: > >> ...backscatter... > >> 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' > > > > The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. > > I own a mailing list server. One of our policies are specific

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-21 Thread Karl Pearson
On Sun, June 21, 2009 2:47 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jeremy Morton wrote: >> ...backscatter... >> 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' > > The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. > The option to fix this is to set "respond_to_post_requests" to "

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeremy Morton wrote: > ...backscatter... > 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. The option to fix this is to set "respond_to_post_requests" to "No" on the main options page. Otherwise it is a serious ba

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-20 Thread Jeremy Morton
Another one, from Lyris ListManager, subject: "re: your email message" These damn mailing lists cause ridiculous backscatter. Can't the admins take a bit more respondibility as to the crap they return to the so-called 'sender'? Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) Jeremy Morton wrote: People

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, June 20, 2009 23:01, Jeremy Morton wrote: > 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' you have verified that the above maillist does check spf ?, or other sensitive forged rejections ? if thats the problem thay do not do this, then problem comes back to you as backsca

Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-20 Thread Jeremy Morton
People who know me by now know that one of my major spam problems is backscatter (and yes, I do consider it spam; it's unsolicited e-mail). A common one that gets past SA is one with a subject like: 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' Any tips for filtering these out?