Re: spam on this list
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Floyd Miller wrote: > Why is there so much spam on this mailing list? Someone figured out a way to get past all of the filters. I'll have to add a rule to just ignore all Korean posts, which is where these messages are coming from. Note that the posting went through the MX host of our ISP. A downside of having an alternate mail exchange, intended work around network link outages, is that the rejected hosts just send to the alternate instead. > Nigerian and South African kmoney scams and breast enhancement > have nothing to do with NIC drivers. Neither do the other 20-30 spam mails a day to _each_ list... these messages just slipped through. > Does the list allow posting messages from non-subscribed addresses > or do spammers actually go to the trouble of subscribing to this list? Non-subscribed address are allowed to post, because new problem reports come from non-subscribers. On lists where we only permit subscriber postings, we still get spam slipping through with forged from: lines, presumably gathered from the same time as the destination address. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993