[Mailman-Users] Dealing with spam

2009-05-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Henry Hartley writes: > 1) What is the best practice approach to dealing with these messages? I > have simply been discarding them. If I reject them, will that send a > response back that might make an automated sender drop my list address > from their list as a non-working address? Or is t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with spam

2009-05-26 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/26/2009 8:57 AM, Henry Hartley wrote: 1) What is the best practice approach to dealing with these messages? I have simply been discarding them. If I reject them, will that send a response back that might make an automated sender drop my list address from their list as a non-working address

[Mailman-Users] Dealing with spam

2009-05-26 Thread Henry Hartley
I have a few small, private lists managed with Mailman. For the most part, I don't have problems with spam, probably aided by the fact that they are both small and private. Lately, however, on one list (about two dozen addresses) I'm getting spam that has valid users as the From: address. My fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with Spam

2002-09-07 Thread Jon Carnes
Okay, dokey. I wrote the work-around that deletes the waiting spam. The reason I don't worry about the waiting subscriptions is that on my lists, I never get any. I only close my lists to email that doesn't belong to folks from the list. Anyone can subscribe to the lists. The few lists I have

RE: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with Spam

2002-09-07 Thread Rajib A. Momen
  -Original Message- From: Jerry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with Spam   I've run into a problem that I'm sure someone must have addressed by now, and I appologize in advance if

[Mailman-Users] Dealing with Spam

2002-09-07 Thread Jerry
I've run into a problem that I'm sure someone must have addressed by now, and I appologize in advance if this is an old thread. (A search of the archives returned so many near misses that I finally gave up looking.) I run a private mailMan list with a little over a hundred subscribers, and e