The best solution is probably the easiest to do.

Restrict the mail relay for the mailing list to members only.

Whenever a member spams the list, he/she/it is removed from the list and
banned for some period of time (1 to 6 months seems reasonable).

Junk spams from outsiders should be dropped without comment.  Mail from 
anyone else gets a reply that indicates that they should join the list to
post to it.

That's the way most of the lists I subscribe to are run.  Can we consider it
for Amanda's?

Thanks for reading.  Now back to your daily dose of SPAM.
(Note:  Attempted humor here.)

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Seth, Wayne (Contractor) [mailto:sethw AT fhu.disa DOT mil]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:22 AM
To: 'Joshua Baker-LePain'; Seth, Wayne (Contractor)
Cc: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: RE: Pornography


Joshua,

The spam comes both ways.  In all cases so far, the message part is in
several foreign languages, so probably not from one source.  My feeling is
that somehow the spammers have gotten into to amanda user-list database and
are using it directly.

Wayne Seth
COE Lab Manager
520-538-0110
sethw AT fhu.disa DOT mil


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 6:42 AM
To: Seth, Wayne (Contractor)
Cc: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Pornography


On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 at 4:09pm, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote

> Since signing up on the Amanda list serve about 2 or 3 weeks ago, my
e-mail
> address seems to have distributed to several pornographic spammers.
Because
> of that, I cannot continue with the list.  Please unsubscribe me.

To be clear, is the spam coming directly to your address, or to the amanda 
list?  (I don't see it, because I run spamassassin on my mail server).

No one but you can unsubscribe you.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University




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