Re: M & I Bank Control your account

Hi, I've been lurking on this mailing list for a while now and after I 
received the phishing scam, I fwd'd the mail to www.antiphishing.org.  I 
realize that this doesn't solve the problem of how to prevent scams like 
this from appearing on the mailing list but I figured I should at least try 
and report the guys who sent the e-mail.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John (yt) Hogenmiller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: M & I Bank Control your account


On 6/12/05, Daniel T. Gorski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 Jun 15:46, John (yt) Hogenmiller wrote:
>
> > On 6/12/05, Daniel T. Gorski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12 Jun 15:22, John (yt) Hogenmiller wrote:
>
> > > > It seems that the cvs list is open to just about any email address
> > > > that wants to post to it, unlike the other lists that require either
> > > > subscription or moderation by either Paul or myself.
>
> > > > I'll look into it.
>
> > > In this case only a local filter would help Archie, as you probably do 
> > > not
> > > want (and can) moderate each email on this list. IMHO.
> >
> > Actually, the list was just set wrong (for our purposes).  Moderated
> > means that only "allowed posters" can submit, Unmoderated means anyone
> > and everyone (subscribed or unsubscribed) can post, and Discuss means
> > that only those that are subscribed can post.   I set the list to
> > discuss, and that should solve our problem.
>
> That means, that the users@ list is still "vulnerable" for such spam.
> Right? So filtering - either at tigris.org or locally - is still required.
> Well, Archie, if you read this: get at least a local SPAM filter :)
>

No matter what I would recommend a local spam filter.  If I can make a
recommendation without getting into a small religious war, I would
recommend using Thunderbird for all of your local mail.  I've made a
small obsession out of trying different mail reader solutions --
webmail, pine, netscape and mozilla messenger, hordes of popular linux
clients, etc before settling on thunderbird.  It has a plethora of
filtering and junk mail options.

As an alternative, I have switched over to using gmail for all of my
"mailing list" emails -- I'm sure that other ones like yahoo or
hotmail might work for you, but gmail has some great features like a
conversation/threaded  view  that is similiar, yet improved over the
usenet style of threading.

Just my $0.02..

Oh, and I looked at the users@ list just now, and it is set to
discuss, so it shouldn't be vulerable.  Only "unmoderated" lists are
open, and as of today, that should be none of ours.

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