Re: regarding spam...

["John Adams" <jna-dated-1017976409.ec14c2 () retina net>]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Ryan Russell wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, John Adams wrote:
>
> > Basically, you profile all your email and make a whitelist (I have a
> > script that does this, ask for it if you need it), and then install the
> > auto confirm code.
> >
> > If people mail you and they're on the whitelist or confirmed list, they're
> > allowed in. If not, they get a confirmation message which they must reply
> > to. Replying to the confirmation message processes their old message and
> > adds their name to your 'confirmed' list.
>
> What do you do about mailing lists?  If we have someone running an
> autoresponder on our lists, they get dropped.  Do you let those through,
> with the (fairly safe) assumption that the moderator will get rid of the
> spam?

You can whitelist by regexp, like so:

# nanog
headers -case '^(To|From|Sender).*[^0-9a-z]nanog.*@([^\.]|$)' accept

Now, as far as spam on the lists go, now you'd have to use a second stage
of spam prevention such as spambouncer (procmail) or spam assassian.

-john

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