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

On 5 May 1998, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> list(at)listme(dot)com writes:
>
> > OK to send an e-mail to pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)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(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org