From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Whit Blauvelt Subject: Please /dev/null html-only mail rather than sending it out on this list Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:26:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20040418212659.GA5506@free.transpect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hi, That a lot of spam has been coming through this list is one thing. That the list daemon threatens to cut people from the list whose systems refuse to accept some of the spam is another. Might I suggest a simple category of stuff to throw out before forwarding to the list: HTML-only mail. 99%+ of it is spam, and the other <1% isn't the sort of people who have any interest in advanced file systems. Two easy ways to block a lot of it: 1. With procmail: # HTML only message are most probably spam. :0 * ^Content-Type:.*text/html { LOG="(HTML) " :0 /dev/null } 2. With SpamAssassin by setting the score for MIME_HTML_ONLY high and then either /dev/null'ing or refusing to even accept such mail (providing you're running it as a milter). (Which is what I do and why the listserv is getting impatient with me.) Other mail filtering methods will have equally easy ways to just toss this trash where it belongs. Whit