Do you filter on the same header that you build the white-list from? Ie I forge all of my mail, it's really coming from ABack@ex.ac.uk; but I want replies to adam@cypherspace.org. I've encountered other "subscribers only" situations where my mail gets bounced because they look too deeply at the headers and see the received line or Sender so something is ABack@ex.ac.uk and block it even though the From line is adam@cypherspace.org, and I subscribed as adam@cypherspace.org Adam On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Eric Murray wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 03:21:05PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

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I hope you whitelist known regular posters. I subscribe to minder, but often post thru lne.

I guess it's been a while since I set this up, so people have forgotten.

There's a "whitelist" that has subscribers to all the CDRs, anonymous remailers, and anyone that has ever posted to any CDR (assuming we got the mail). It's not often that there is a non-spam post from a sender that isn't on the whitelist-- when there is, I forward it and put the sender on the list.

The idea is to filter out the spam without requiring moderation.

Eric

At 01:03 PM 05/12/2003 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:

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whitelist

If you're thinking about using relay blocking lists, you'll also need to whitelist them, because there are some systems like John Gilmore's that get blocked otherwise. I don't know how many of the remailers show up on blacklists, but the remailer-operators list periodically notes domains that get blacklisted as well, so it's non-zero.