Re: [HACKERS] OK to send e-mail?

On 5 May 1998, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> list@listme.com writes:
>
> > OK to send an e-mail to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org?
>
> Intruder alert!
>
> Could someone forge an error reply to that message, so that our list
> doesn't get put on their spam list?  (And, of course, if someone could
> track them down physically and break their legs, so much the better!)
>
> Actually, now that this has started, the proper way to go may be to
> start blocking postings to the lists from anyone not on them.  On the
> down side, this means that people must send their postings from the
> address they're subscribed as.

    Even better, I have to get my next set of filters in place...that
doesn't allow connects from SPAM sites :)

> -tih (who hopes all UCE senders die slow and painful deaths)

    Makes two of us, but closing the lists isn't the way to go...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org