From: "Roy J. Milican" Date: 2002-03-09T13:13:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Spam, ruby-talk, and me Greetings, Friday, March 08, 2002, 2:48:51 PM, you wrote: JF> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:42:38AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote: >> Jim Freeze writes: >> >> > The way frebsd.org prevents this is two ways: >> > 1) require that the reverse dns match the original address. >> > 2) strip all attachments from all posts. >> >> I don't really have a reverse DNS to check - this is stuff coming off >> an nntp feed. I could check the originating host name, but in this >> particular case it would have passed. >> >> Dave JF> Yes, (1) wouldn't be particularly useful for the nntp feed. JF> But if the list enforced it, the less spam would exist at JF> the nntp feed. JF> What about stripping all attachments? That is, only allow JF> text. No encoded mime formats. How about passing it through a spam filter first. There are many effective ones out there. One example being http://spamassassin.org/ Roy -- Roy Milican roy@milican.com