On Thursday 12 February 2009 20:47:28 Roshan George wrote: > On Thursday 12 Feb 2009, p.sriram wrote: > > any user spamming the list with invites from yaari / hi-5 whatever > > shall be immediately unsubscribed and also banned from subscribing in > > future - yes / no > > I think these would be good options (in decreasing order of > desirability): > 1. Reject all email from yaari, hi5, orkut domains (view the message > headers, the email that triggered this discussion comes from > yaariinvites.com). I do not know how mailman works, but it should be > easy to add this domain to its spam filters (if it has any) or drop the > email at the mail server. > 2. It is possible, I think it is possible to contact these websites and > add the ilugc mailing list address to a blacklist so that no requests > are sent here even if requested.
our list admin is a busy person - there are about 20-30 of these a year. It will increase of course, but we cannot expect the admin to waste his time. Just ban them - every one else will start getting careful. That is what is being done in the Hyderabad lug -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
