[Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

[Larry Stone]

On 7/14/07 12:42 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot at zbigniew at szalbot.homedns.org wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>> As Larry Stone mentioned, just put something in the headers and
>> footers of every message, which tells AOL users that they will have
>> their entire domain permanently banned from the list, if you get too
>> many spam complaints.
>> 
>> Then carry through on that threat when it happens.
>> 
>> Simple.
> 
> Simple - yes. Effective? Depends on what you are after. By doing it this
> way you are not really different from AOL, are you? You punish many users
> just because some other are thoughtless and lazy. When I offer something, I
> want people to use it, not ban it.

Brad misunderstood or misstated what I do. I don't ban the domain (aol.com),
I ban the user (AOLoser at aol.com).

I know this next gets a little away from Mailman and I can't say for other
MTAs but it's simple to do in Postfix:

In main.cf:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions=
...
 check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_checks,
...

In sender_checks:
# This file has to be "compiled" with "postmap" -
# $ postmap hash:sender_checks
# Sender is SMTP FROM argument

# AOLoser at aol.com banned for AOL TOS notice - 10/20/05
AOLoser at aol.com               554 You have previously reported requested
mail from here as SPAM - you are banned from this server (see
http://www.stonejongleux.com/spamban.html - 10/20/05)

(note that the above needs to be one line in the actual sender_checks file)

-- 
Larry Stone
lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
http://www.stonejongleux.com/