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

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:54:08 -0400
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:

>
> > * If you send email to an invalid user/alias multiple times within
> > a particular threshold your ip is banned automatically for 30 days
> > (something that CMD is working on for their server).
>
> Hrmmm, now that's an interesting one ... are you implementing it
> within some sort of policy server similar to greylisting, or some
> other way?

Right now I am considering filtering it via the syslog and then using
iptables but it could be done any number of ways, including just adding
a reject map.

>
> > * The ability to forward messages that do get through to
> > "something" that allows automatic blacklisting so we never see them
> > again.
>
> That one I dislike, only because I could see it somehow being
> abused :(
>

Yeah I knew that was going to come up but I think we need to be able to
trust our moderators, else why are they moderators? Besides we could
have an audit trail just in case.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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