On Sun, June 21, 2009 2:47 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jeremy Morton wrote: >> ...backscatter... >> 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' > > The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. > The option to fix this is to set "respond_to_post_requests" to "No" on > the main options page. Otherwise it is a serious backscatter source. > I think the default may be Yes. > > respond_to_post_requests=No > > As a backscatter source I would have no qualms about listing them in a > DNSBL. Reporting offenders as spam sources seems like the only > recourse. > >> Any tips for filtering these out? > > I specifically filter those out from my incoming mail. That message > is never helpful to me. > >> Trouble is there might occasionally be a mailing list I want to post >> to where I do get such a message, > > Do *you* ever need to see that message? Unless you are the moderator > you can't approve the posting. And if you are the moderator then you > will get a moderator mail message concerning it and can react to it. > It doesn't help you. There isn't any action you can take for it. So > you might as well smtp-reject or procmail-discard those. >
I own a mailing list server. One of our policies are specifically about "Challenge Servers" . . . We don't accept any. If someone hasn't previously entered our server in so we don't see the responses, we unsubscribe them without comment. Some might think that's harsh. I don't. Karl >> but I get a phenomenal number of such messages where it's obviously >> a spammer who has sent a msg to the list and joe-jobbed me. Worse >> still, the mail matches this, rule: >> >> -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at >> http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust > > You might consider changing that to: > > score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI -0.001 > score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED -0.001 > score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW -0.001 > score HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI -0.001 > score HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI -0.001 > > Bob > --- Karl Pearson ka...@ourldsfamily.com Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin ---
