Ban peter.whalley

[John Summerfied]

William Hooper wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> 
>>--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> 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 at redhat.com.
> 
> 
> 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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