[Outages-discussion] Spam from Dymaxion?

[Jimmy Hess]

A bit wild there.

I would suggest having  some kind of post rate limit, as in...
3 Posts per Sender  E-mail Address per Hour,   or something
like that, and do bounce any messages above that limit,
then if some random ticket system does get through: at least it will
not be able to flood and respond to itself on the same mailing list.

Small quota: adequate to report an outage or send information,
but since the list is not for discussion,  no legit reason should be
able to exist for a single poster to ever be sending a "bunch"
of posts to outages@ in a short timeframe.

The automated posts could then be "dealt with" as a non-emergency,
since they would quickly shut themselves off by hitting rate limit.

I suppose remains unimplemented for mailman
https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/119

But could likely be enforced at a SMTP service software policy layer,
for example  an exim script or  postfix policyd  Sender Quota.

Just a thought...


Best regards,

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:32 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> Entirely accidental, I assure you.
> -- j
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-JH