Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:13:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:13:32 -0500 Received: from mail.inf.tu-dresden.de ([141.76.2.1]:8816 "EHLO mail.inf.tu-dresden.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:13:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:12:52 +0100 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jeremy Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: anti-spam regexps Message-ID: <20010305181252.A1589@ugly.wh8.tu-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <3AA3909D.805707AB@coplanar.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:23:13PM -0300 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Anybody interested in the ~100 anti-spam regexps I'm using > on NL.linux.org at the moment ? > there is a much simpler method: drop any mail, which does not contain the address of the mailing list in To: or Cc:. Bcc: mails (who wants to post with a bcc legitimately?) and bulk mailers (which don't put the receipients into the headers) are rejected. this does not only protect from spam, but also from the jerks, that subscribe one mailing list to another. or did i miss some important point? best regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/