On Sunday 16 November 2003 17:18, Phil Homewood wrote:
>Willy Wittesaele wrote:
>> it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list
>> because I just started using the amanda backup program
>> and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or
>> virusses
>
>Ah, You want the amanda *backup* program. This appears to be the
>Antisocial Misdirected Autoresponder Notification Dumping Archive.
>I made the same mistake.
>
>:-/
>
>(Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this
>virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail
>at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?)

I'll second that motion.  One message a few hours ago was stripped of 
what I'd assume was a copy of swen, and that generated 5 more 
autoresponder replies to be deleted.

OTOH, all 6, after the stripping by whatever stripped it, were about 
130 kilobytes less than 1 copy of the virii, (140.5k) so we have a 
net gain in usable bandwidth.

They get in because this is an open list.  However, after the last few 
weeks I'd vote to close it, and allow read only of its archives for 
the general public, with write privs only to those subscribed.  No 
more trouble than it is to subscribe, and as quick as it can be done, 
I don't see a very good reason to keep it open to every spam spewer 
on the planet.

Oh, and I vote for the use of the 'shoot' option at least as a last 
resort.

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