On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
> Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200,
> Michael Beattie wrote:
> >
> > Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc?????
>
> I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on
> from: addresses. Hotmail or lycos do not have anything to do with spammers.
> Most of the time the spammers set their from address to an invalid hotmail
> address just because that's the service they know. However, there are more
> than a few people who use such email services legitimately. I would rather
> block the real providers of the spammers (those that give them access and/or
> relay for them) rather than block on the from: address which does not mean
> much with spammers.
True.. I stand corrected. I just got too much spam that Thursday :)
> Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.com
> .
> It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field has
> nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all
> aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I
> haven't had to do any of that lately).
Heh... its funny really.. AOL has quite strict rules does it not? Correct
me if I am wrong.
> > I dont know about anyone else... But that sort of [EMAIL PROTECTED] really
> bugs me.
> > Unfortunately, my spam filter wont catch stuff sent to the list.. :(
>
>
> I am trying my best to make sure debian lists do not get spam.
You do a pretty good job... from what I have seen. I just meant the odd
one or two like the one I referred to here.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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