spam revisited

[Jim Herrmann]

Why can't a list member simply signup from all e-mail addresses from 
which they wish to post, and set option nomail for addresses they wish 
not to receive.  I have to do this to get signed up on a closed list 
using my alias of jim at itdepends, which is really b3d at kc.rr.com, so that 
I can post, but still receive at my alias.

However, I'm not sure the original post was talking about spam from this 
list.  I think they were talking about spam in general, from other 
sources.  One of the things that I do, since I have my own domain, is 
that I give bogus users, with my domain, which goes to the catch all 
account that I check periodically.  Unfortunately, I didn't think of 
this soon enough, and now "Jim" is all over the place.  Hindsight is 20-20.

There are also services, or lists, that you can sign up for that 
"legitimate" bulk mailers are supposed to check before sending out any 
e-mails.  That has worked pretty well for me.  I don't remember the 
address, and it is late, and this post has gone on too long, so if you 
want me to do the leg work to look up that URL for you, you will have to 
wait.  There's always Google.

Peace on earth,
Jim Herrmann

Monty Harder wrote:

> Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:
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>>I think what might be a better solution, is to have an allowed/refused
>>ruleset. This would work like this, refuse from the spamming domains
>>unless there is a specific from address that is allowed. This gives you
>>the best of both worlds, refusing spam on a domain basis, but allowing
>>registered individuals through.
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>   Yes!  An additional feature would be the one that YahooGroups employs,
> which allows a person to subscribe to the list with one email address to
> which the list sends, but optionally additional addresses from which that
> person may post.  I don't know how hard it is to massage Majordomo into
> employing either or both of these ideas, but that's the sort of thing we
> need to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater.
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