The Thursday 2004-10-21 at 17:03 +0200, Philippe Vogel wrote:
O.K. nice discussion about that, but how we do get rid of this bots?
Well, the thing is that if we, users, get a method to post to the list with a valid "envelope from" and invalid "header from" the robots can never reach us, simple users. Mmm, I had to look up "bot" in the jargon dictionary. I prefer the older "robot" O:-) That trick also helps to keep our mail box free of spam. Unfortunately, as I said, the only MUA that I know can do it is mutt. It is not possible with Pine, mozilla, kmail, balsa... etc, etc.
A simple reauthentification, that you are homan, like on postfix-users list would help a lot. If you are a bot you can't answer the sign-up request.
True. But ezmlm triggers on the "To" address alone, the contents of the email is ignored.
I inserted a reject-line in my mta but this does not help the others.
Mmmm... Perhaps it is easier to simply delete them as they come. They change address anyway, don't they?
I know it's hard to track back those bots. A worse solution would be to kill all signed up accounts not writing anything (which is no real solution).
I guess not, because there must be many readers out there doing simply that, reading. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson