[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Feature Requests-232489 ] RFE: Option to drop implicit destination messages

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Feature Requests item #232489, was opened at 2001-02-15 19:06
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Category: configuring/installing
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 4
Submitted By: Karsten Thygesen (karthy)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: RFE: Option to drop implicit destination messages

Initial Comment:
Many lists receive huge loads of spam with iimplicit destination (BCc). I would like an option to bounce their postings with information about, that implicit destinations is not allowed and then _not_ inform the administrator of the list. As admin, it is not unusual to receive more than 30 administrative mails pr. list pr. day. When running many lists, this can be quite a burden.

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Comment By: Ken Yap (ken_yap)
Date: 2003-01-10 12:28

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Is this implemented in the latest release? Anybody know?

Anyway I found a way around it. I send all admin mail to a
webmail mailbox which I check perhaps once a few months. I'm
so sick of getting reminded to delete spam that I don't care
if some silly subscriber doesn't know the posting rules.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2002-08-05 00:49

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I second this. For a public list this option is de rigeur. I
admin a couple of lists, and with only a couple of
exceptions, ALL MAIL with implicit destinations were spam.
It's a burden on the admin to have to discard these. To add
injury to insult, mailman insists on reminding me every
couple of hours to deal with the spam.

I don't know why you people didn't think of this long ago.
Please, please, please, implement this option, and let the
list admin decide if this is the default policy for the
list. I have suffered enough. I am capable of implementing
the changes required and would have done so, but these are
sourceforge lists beyond my control. I asked sourceforge to
implement this option and they said it was up to the developers.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-08-14 22:20

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We're getting flooded with this as well on the EROS project
lists. I don't think an autorespond is a good idea, but a
silent discard would be EXTREMELY useful. It's annoying
enough that I've been trying to find the time to dig in to
the code...

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Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters)
Date: 2001-03-03 10:52

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Moved to feature requests. Could possibly be incorporated
into the autoresponder.

Note, however, that bouncing spam is usually not a good
idea: the from address (both of them) are almost always
fake, and sometimes end up in the mailbox(es) of innocent
people. I have seen a lot of uucp nodes suffer under that
kind of flooding.


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