On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, John A. Lind wrote:
> Careful with this advice! Know what you're doing with mail headers if you
> do this so that you get the source correct.
One should never do things if one does not know what he's doing. That's
common sense, and thus I didn't think to mention.
> A number of them have come
> through the list which will contain the IP's of the email servers
> associated with distributing the OM list too!
True.
> Also, the originating
> machines are infected with the worm. Their owners do not know they're
> sending this suff.
No, but they *should* then be informed to remove the problem from their
machines. I guess that's in both their and others interrest.
>
> Apparently the OM list server is truncating the file attachments to 0k
> (completely empty; nothing there) which is a Good Thing. (Applicable to
> only the stuff coming through the list.) I don't believe MajorDomo, the
> email list software running the OM list is capable of blocking a single
> "subject" or "from" address in the headers.
>
I am not here to second-guess the people running the list and the
hosting machine and suggest how they do their job (they do a splendid
job for all I know). I merely meant to suggest what recipients of spam
could do (and - imho - should do).
However this is getting way off topic, and I will leave the topic
rest (or take it up in personal correspondance?)
--thomas
> At 10:03 3/4/01, you wrote:
> >Two easy steps:
> >
> > 1) Fire off a complaint to abuse@ and postmaster@ any and all
> > domains in the msg. header and their immediate upstreams
> > (traceroute is your friend here)
> >
> > 2) a suitable filter in your .procmailrc (or whatever your
> > mail-system supports) and you will never see such mails again.
> >
> >The somewhat harder step:
> >
> > Convince your local BOFH to subscribe to the Real Time Blackhole
> > (or other such mechanism) and thus filter out mail from spamming,
> > spam-friendly and open mail relays.
> >
> >--thomas
> >
> >(who's getting SO off-topic here, but hotel-rooms are booring on sundays)
>
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M.Sc in Computer Engineering
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