[Talk] Closing AUUG lists to non-subscribers

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:03, Greg Black wrote:
> Despite a clear Reply-To header that directed replies to the
>
> list, On 2004-05-14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > To: talk at auug.org.au
> > Cc: Greg Black <gjb at auug.org.au>

Uhh..
To: the list.
CC: to you.

What's the problem?

> > On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:44, Greg Black wrote:
> > > I don't want to unsubscribe, because the few legitimate posts
> > > are of interest to me -- but I'm fed up with the regular spam.
> > > Surely there is something that can be done about this?
> >
> > You could add Bayes spam filtering to your end and filter mails that
> > way..
>
> Gee, thanks.  I don't want my user group to be a vehicle for
> spam (just as I don't want people to be so ignorant that they
> ignore a clear Reply-To header on email that I send out).
>
> Just FYI: (1) my spam filters *do* catch most of this crap; but
> why should AUUG waste its resources sending this out and why
> should AUUG bother its members with this junk?  (2) my duplicate
> suppression utility does block extra copies of messages from
> hitting my inbox, but why should I have to process them when
> I've made it quite clear that I don't want them?

Restricting on sender is very blunt and makes it difficult for people to 
discuss things freely (especially if cross posting)

A better way wouuld be to add better spam filtering to the AUUG server itself, 
but that will still let some spam through no matter what you try.

Sender authentication like TMDA would be pretty good though I think.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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