From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bypassing the mailing list name restriction Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000821203204.A29552@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <20000821180216.A14361@cygnus.com> <20000821154455.A1040@shell17.ba.best.com> <20000821231731.A16521@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00279.html Message-ID: <20000821203200.-VUAV7oV1nttmu3t9Y1e9bBADhjmKH7uMQlOElyma44@z> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:17:31PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote: > This isn't a spammer. It's actually a user. He is using hotpop.com to > forward email to the cygwin mailing list because his real ISP is blocked. Oh. > He probably stumbled across this usage as a way around his problem but > it is causing problems for other mailing list users. I bet his envelope From_ addr is "cygwin@hotpop.com". If you looked at one of his messages in the ezmlm archive (/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin/archive/NNN/NN), there's probably a header which shows his From_ addr. Once you've got that, you can just add it to the list of blacklisted users. Or, as you noted, you could just ask him to stop. :-) J