Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?
Date: 2007-11-27 20:30:54
Message-ID: 11088.1196195454@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> * If you are not subscribed it never makes it to the moderator.

I don't think that's acceptable at all --- we'd be pretty much closing
ourselves off from the outside world. It's particularly not acceptable
for pgsql-bugs.

> * If you send email to an invalid user/alias multiple times within a
> particular threshold your ip is banned automatically for 30 days

That might be a good idea, though my own experience is that the spambot
hordes are now large enough that they can avoid spamming you very often
from the same IP.

regards, tom lane

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