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RE: Pornography
2003-03-20 14:57:03
One of the things that might help is to limit majordomo's who access to
list members. I have tried this from a yahoo account, majordomo AT amanda DOT org
is happy to supply me with a list of all subscribers to the amanda-users
list. I suppose it would do so for the other lists as well. I see no
reason why anyone should get the list of subscribers, especially not
someone who does not even subscribe. I speak from experience; I once set
up a list without restricting who-access for a company-internal list, and
that list got spammed. No one on the outside could subscribe, but they
could get the list of subscribers.
BTW, this is my first post to this list, so my e-mail address would
probably not have been in any archive. And yes, I too I noticed a marked
increase in all kinds of spam, even in Turkish (which I do not understand,
but can identify) since I subscribed to this list.
So, please deny who-access, at least to those not on the list. It might
help reduce spam, at least for new subscribers. Those who have previously
subscribed are probably in the spammers' databases already...
Thank you,
Carsten
At 07:11 20-03-03, Albert Hopkins wrote:
The amanda mailing lists are, to the best of my knowledge, archived and
available on the web. So basically if you can parse email addresses out
of HTML documents on the web then it's easy to get spam once you post to
an archived mailing list. It comes with the territory.
The U.S. military should be able to deal with the realities of spam. I
can't see that they can just turn their backs and pretend that their
users are not going to get spammed at some point, especially if they're
using public Internet email addresses.
--a
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:21, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote:
> 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
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