spam revisited

[Steve Johnson]

You could turn on the majordomo feature that requires membership, that will
at least cut down on it (if you have not already done so).  At least then
they have to work harder to get the job done. I do this with the Majordomo
lists I run and they are spam free.

It is the "restrict-post" option and you would set it to "kclug"

The downside is that a member wants to post from a different email address
(work,home,school) they can't do it.  Small price to pay IMHO.

sj

-----Original Message-----
From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike at illiana.net]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:03 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: spam revisited

Hello, I am interested in knowning how the list members feel about spam.
I've
been receiving an increasing amount of spam in my personal mail box lately
and 
I have been looking into something more radical than a merely an access list
of common spammers.  I'm considering a commercial service that works with
sendmail
that incrementally downloads an abuse list daily and will reject e-mail from
those
domains of known spammers.  This will undoubtedly block many of the large
ISP
and free e-mail services too such as hotmail, yahoo-mail and aol.  I am
quite
aware that some of our members use these services to post to the group.  I'm

hoping you guys could help me weigh the benefits and pitfalls of such a
system.
One thing is for sure though, manual additions to the access database take
up
time that I could be doing better things and it is probably not the best
solution
to our problem.

Thanks in advance,

	Mike Neuliep