Re: [bounces] Re: filter this list!?!?

[Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>]

Option (4) Configure majordomo to accept msg only from subscribers ( a 
feature it already supports).


At 04:32 PM 9/3/03, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>options:
>1) write up a filter to stop it that will not impact machine
>    that sends billions of messages and works with majordomo2.
>    Offer it up.  As a package that self installs.  With docs.
>2) filter locally.  I don't get ANY of these messages.
>    procmail and spamassassin are your friend.
>3) see ya.
>--------------
>[pick one]
>
>
>(and this list is hardly the main or even a major source of spam/
>worms for me)...
>
>Quoting Matthew Coulson (balizar@albaniantranslators.com):
> > I for one am about a week away from unsubscribing due to the annoyance 
> of all
> > these bounces. I personally don't think that I should have to be the one
> > filtering out what is shit and what isn't shit from the email's sent to a
> > mailing list. A mailing list should try to keep spam from being sent to it
> > and it should also try to stop bounces as well. Why should a mailing list
> > server waste all of this bandwidth with all of these useless emails. Most
> > likely there are thousands of subscribers to at least this mailing list
> > with the typical email that is getting bounced being < 20 KB we aren't 
> talking
> > about a tiny bit of bandwidth and this is for a single message but what 
> about
> > the 40+ we are getting a day. Now we are talking about Gigabytes of 
> bandwidth
> > being wasted. Even with broadband I would rather that my bandwidth go 
> unused
> > than wasted in this way.