[Cialug] Easy fixes for today's list spam

[David Champion]

The RBL and broken DNS settings are both quick changes in Postfix as well.

-dc

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:10:08PM +0000, Josh More wrote:
>
> > I have temporarily set the list to require admin approval for new
> > members.  If it is not too burdensome, I may keep it this way.
>
> I hope this is a temporary move, because (politically) it centralizes
> the group.  And I don't think that's compatable with open source
> ideals.  root should not be democratic, but list membership, for
> the most part, should be.  Besides, you yourself note that you "no
> longer have time in [your] life to be an email admin." :-)
>
> > I will not be turning on spamhaus, XBL or blocking broken DNS.  It's
> > not that I think it's a bad idea, it's that I no longer have time
> > in my life to be an email admin.  I will, however, re-iterate my
> > invite to the group for anyone out there that wants to serve as a
> > co-admin with Kevin and me.  It would be nice to get some help here.
>
> I'd be happy to help.  I ran Postfix for a while at an ISP a long time
> ago (11 years) before upgrading to qmail.  Been using it ever since, so
> I'm well comfortable with mail and am not a stranger to Postfix.  Email
> and security are my two most important "subjects."
>
> How I would do things: small changes, announced publically, tested
> first using identically-configured "test" lists containing only my
> own accounts as subscribers before applying those changes to the
> main list.  I would probably only make a few small changes and then
> not touch it much, because system configs are not toys.
>
> I would probably use the Spamhaus XBL & SBL lists but not Zen because
> Zen includes PBL (residential lines).  And some people here probably
> post from their cable modem and I think that's cool, besides the
> fact that open networking should be encouraged and can be easily
> supported in this situation.
>
> As for broken DNS: I'd allow people time to fix their setups.  Known
> broken netblocks could be allowed as well in the meantime, so changes
> would appear seamless.
>
> This would all take about 2 minutes in qmail, not sure in Postfix.  But
> it has more built-in capabilities than qmail, so it's only a matter of
> investigating.
>
> Nicolai
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