Spammed

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Tim Wunder wrote:
>On Wednesday 18 October 2006 4:16 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:41, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> > It seems absurd that the only choices are 1) letting everybody in or 2)
>> > letting everybody plague the list administrator.
>>
>> I believe on the Suse lists any email from non-subscribers is sent back to
>> the sender with a note saying "only subscribers can post".   The spammer
>> will never see it I'm sure but it at least gets rid of it.
>
>It only gets rid of it if the from address is a valid e-mail, which most SPAM 
>messages don't have. Won't the list admin end up having to deal with 
>bounce/undeliverable messages?

As a general rule, no.  At least with Mailman, it handles the vast majority
of bounces, automatically suspending delivery to addresses that bounce
above some threshhold.  It periodially sends reports of bounces it doesn't
know how to handle to the list administrator for manual handling.  One of
my pet peeves is AOL users who reject mail from certain senders resulting
in bounces saying they're rejecting mail from that sender (particularly
when they're rejecting on my e-mail address :-).

Bill
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