Hi!
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:08:52 +0200 (CEST), Carlos E. R.
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?
Some of the suggestions I didn't understand. So, I'll just give and example of working system from a list that has been running for 10 years and doesn't have problems with spam or bots. - Subscription done so that it can not be confirmed by just hitting reply - Replies to the list (not to the sender like here) - Limit posting to subscribers (others bounce) - Check the posts for list admin footer, if it is included bounce. This gets rid of sloppy quoting also as if the footer is included, then somebody replied to the email, wrote their answer on top and included everything else without deleting unneeded stuff. Not nice, so bounce. Bots automatically answering always include everything and thus they are bounced. - If some bot is actually subscribed, kick them out (some subscriber might set up a holiday notification...) There are other filters in place also (html, attachments...), but these I think are the main filters. No bots and no spam. -- HG