On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
And now I just received this same spam... Indeed it did come through wlug. We could prevent this sort of thing by only allowing subscribers of the list to post to the list. How does everyone feel about that?
It's fine by me. Alternately, if we don't want to go that route, I've developed a small set of tools (procmail/some perl/spamassassin) to filter out spam from mailing lists. It was written for use with majordomo, but it's generic enough that it should work with most any mailing list software. One of these days I'll actually finish the article I was writing about it. :| It doesn't catch 100% of the spam, but it does catch the vast majority, including the one that got through. I'd be happy to share for the wlug list if interested. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV! -- Homer Simpson There's No Disgrace Like Home