Spamming and List Changes?

[Michael McNamara <nospam@thanx>]

Considering your mail to me was prefixed by three spam, and postfixed
by two other spam, anything you can do to prevent spam is appreciated.

Ralf S. Engelschall writes:
 > 
 > Although I've changed the webpages to not contain directly the string
 > sw-wml@engelschall.com there are still spam mails on sw-wml from time to time.
 > (Sure, the spammers buy the mails from database providers and even can
 > determine them by crawling the sw-wml archive, etc.)
 > 
 > I've already configured a lot of regex in Majordomo which filter approx. 90%
 > of them but I hate it to still see some of these spam mails here. So, the
 > typical step is to change the Majordomo configuration to allow only subscribed
 > addresses to post. The only drawback is that your mails then really have to
 > come from the address you subscribed with (perhaps difficult for some of you
 > like me who use a lot of intermediate addresses) or you have to explicitly
 > send me your used addresses. These then have to be added to a list for
 > Majordomo.
 > 
 > Is this approach Ok for you or are there any subtle problems I missed?  If no
 > one speaks up the next week and says this change is really bad I'll change
 > Majordomos configuration at the end of the next week.
 > 
 > Greetings,
 >                                        Ralf S. Engelschall
 >                                        rse@engelschall.com
 >                                        www.engelschall.com
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 > Official Support Mailing List                   sw-wml@engelschall.com
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