Subject: Re: Mass-Mailings Delivered to NetBSD.ORG--STOP THE(MY) MADNESS
To: Jeff Thieleke <thieleke@ix.netcom.com>
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 11/26/1997 21:13:28
>> I agree and sympathize (and I am the unofficial NetBSD "spam czar",
>> hence this reply), but doing so is not as simple as it may appear.
>> 
>> >I'm advocating that you ban the mail servers which originate these
>> >messages from posting into the current-users..  or at least the domains of
>> >the original senders, and the mail servers which allow anonymous postings.
>> 
>> Unfortunately this is not always possible.  For instance, one recent
>> example (Subject: Here it is....) was received from a mailserver in
>> the ix.netcom.com domain.  When I complained to Netcom about it, I got
>> back the following:
>> 
>
>Why not do more filtering than simply blacklisting domains?  For example, the

Strongly consider using:

	http://maps.vix.com

		--Greg