Spammed

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Wednesday 18 October 2006 08:21, Harry G wrote:
>> I don't know about you, but I am suddenly getting a lot of spam from the
>> SxS site, and some of the same ones are now emailing me directly. ?Here is
>> a full header for those who have the ability to figure this out:
>
>Yep....   someone broke the code....   I don't know whether I am getting them 
>directly since they are probably being canned automatically....   but I guess 
>I'm going to have to run the SXS stuff through the spam-catcher too.
>
>I wonder if it would be possible to only allow postings by userid's that have 
>subscribed.  Seems to work in other places.

The Mailman lists I maintain are all subscriber posting only which (a) cuts
down a lot of spam attempts that get by spamassassin, and (b) generates a
fair number of moderator notices that I or other list maintainer have to
approve or delete.

The spam postings that I've seen recently from the linux-sxs lists have all
come into the linux-sxs mail system from IP addresses that are on various
reliable DNSRBLs, mostly from zombified machines running the Microsoft
Virus, Windows, running in dynamic IP space of broadband providers.

While Linux guys (and gals) often rant about being unable to send outgoing
e-mail from their systems because their ISP is blocking port 25 to anything
but their mail servers, this is a good example of why it's a Good Idea(tm).

Bill
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