OT - Mailing List Admin question

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Sun Nov 11 08:51:18 UTC 2007


Brad Fuller schrieb:
> Thanks Ken, I think it reasonably acceptable to set this filter to
> "reject". If a legitimate poster emails the list who is a non-member,
> and the email bounces back to him, then hopefully they'll realize that
> they need to join.
>   
The problem with the "reject" policy is that without strong spam
blocking *before* spam gets into Mailman you would generate backscatter
(i.e. unrelated people whose addresses are used as the fake spam sender
address get unsolicited mail from the mailing list system).

Cheers,
Hans-Martin



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