Re: Ban peter.whalley

William Hooper wrote:

Antonio Olivares wrote:

--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Summerfied wrote:

Can we get his person banned until he sorts out

his mail problem?

That would be great, except that address isn't
subscribed.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-April/msg00380.html

If he is not subscribed, then how do his annoying
messages come back to us when we send a message to fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxx

Setting up forwarding e-mail address isn't that hard, and since the
message doesn't have full headers it is impossible to tell what the e-mail
address is.

This has been discussed multiple times in the past (please see the
archives).  Posting the same info about it again and again isn't going to
do anything but give you more of the messages.

As I see it we need one of the following:
a) Someone who knows this person to get them to unsubscribe
b) Someone with enough time to send a mail to every address on the list
and see what address is doing it

Given a list, I could put together a script to do that in a few minutes. Dunno about the bandwidth tho.

Basically, create an address to reply to then
N=0
function mailto()
{
  cat <<Z | sendmail -t
from: bogon+${2}@example.com
reply-to: bogon+${2}@example.com
to: ${1}
subject: We're cleaning the list, pls bin this

optional more apologetic text
Z
}
}
$(create list) | while read addy
  do N=$((N+1))
     mailto $addy $n
     echo >>mailout.log
   done

Probably, there's an error in there

c) Kill the list off and make everyone resubscribe

Sure.

d) Set up a client side filter and get on with your life

Problem with that is each individual has to fix it and the problem never ends.

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Cheers
John

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