On Monday 13 Mar 2006 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote: > David Fletcher wrote: > > > > I don't know anything about running a list server, so this might be a > > daft idea, but would it be possible to get the server to strip, say, six > > characters from in front of or after the '@' character in the reply-to > > address before accepting postings? Then we could all add the appropriate > > Please, not before. That is a major pain in the lower back for > admins. > > Mike > -- Thinking about this some more, if I understand it properly, the cretin is exploiting the reply-to email address in every message after it has left the list. So there would be no point in the list subscribers doing anything to invalidate their own addresses before sending postings to the list. To my mind, what would do the job would be the addition of some characters somewhere in the subscriber's email reply-to address before sending postings back out to the list of members. That would only need to be done once per posting, so it would be very easy on computing resources if it were possible. For instance, if my email address could be changed from fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx before sending out postings to the subscribers there would be virtually no chance of it being a valid email address, so the cretin's auto reply would not be able to spam the members. But on the odd occasions that members need to make contact off list, the pattern would be obvious. So pretty soon the cretin would stop being a bloody nuisance to everybody. Dave F -- Registered Linux user number 393408 I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763
