Other Lists Seem to be SPAM Magnets

[Joel Hammer]

Interesting.

I have noticed a small drop in my spam since I was bounced off the
samba list last week because they claimed there were too many bounced
emails from my address. Odd, since my email is handled by register.com,
and only the samba list complained about bounced email.

Joel


On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:07:35AM +1100, James McDonald wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have just subscribed to the samba users mailing list and also to mutt-users.
> 
> Since then I am getting MANY virus emails and SPAM has increased dramatically.
> 
> Now since being subscribed to linux-users over the last several years (4yrs) I have received little to no... virus emails/SPAM.
> 
> How is it that the linux-users list either doesn't attract this sort of Trash or how do the linux-users list admins stop the detritous from coming through?
> 
> I know that the Samba list would have a lot more virus/spam because of the M$ outlook clients people would be using. But shouldn't the list admin filter it out.... I really am getting heaps of this and I would like to stop it....
> 
> However I think I may just be spammers are using the lists to glean addresses and then sending email exploits/spam directly to those address. So it looks like I will need to install some sort of AV and also spam blocker. Any suggestions
> 
> I am running RH9.0 with Postfix and using IMAP to access my email via mutt or mozilla.