[Mageia-sysadm] Login blacklist on identity

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 10 15:38:42 CET 2011


2011/2/10 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 15:28, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While thinking about setting email alias, I realized that if we are
>> gonna offer alias to various people, we should maybe forbid certain
>> login to be registered, like press, contact, president so they do not
>> clash in the future.
>>
>> Is there anything to add on that list :
>>  contact   -> already used on the current website
>>  press     -> the same
>>
>>  president -> could be nice to have
>>  secretary -> ditto
>>  treasurer -> ditto
>>
>> security ?
>
> Yes. And marketing, communication, design, board, council, team,
> teams, *master, spa[m], report, feedback, info and... well. Not all in
> mind.
>
>> And for obvious reasons I prefer to keep the list as small as possible
>> for a start ( and so only for thing when they are in practice used ),
>> and later let it grow.
>
> Can't we as well monitor the list of ids being registered in case a
> delicate one appears? Because indeed, we can't make an exhaustive list
> (but we could build one from experience for further uses).

Related question: did you create a "catch-all" or will mails with
wrong addressees just bounce?

-- 
wobo


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