On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:36:35PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > Actually I don't think spam management is off topic, and even if it > were I'm not on mutt-ot and not going to sign up. It's completely > natural that off-topic discussions arise from on-topic threads on > mailing lists, and I think trying to reroute them is largely pointless > and a bit misguided. I don't think it should be discouraged until a > particular thread reaches the level of being annoying. In my > experience, trying to reroute threads mostly just kills a potentially > interesting thread, which usually is at least marginally related > anyway. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one on this list who thinks > that way. Anyway...
I use greylisting, and it's pretty darned effective. I use my "real" address on public mailing lists, personal correspondance, etc., and I still get only a small amount of spam. You're probably aware of greylisting already. The reason I bring it up is that it's a spam fighting technique that doesn't make suspected spam disappear, but disallows delivery. So a false positive means someone gets a bounce, which alerts them to the problem. For your current setup, you might consider adding a reply-to header pointing at the list so that mails don't go to the bogus address by default for humans. Just a small concession to the people on the other end, and it doesn't hurt your protection at all... -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
