On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:25:34AM +0100, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:39:11PM -0600, Josh Huston wrote:
> >
> > What's the hell? Why are we getting spams here and how did it get
> > through? I thought you have to be a subscriber to post an email?
>
> I've very low spam volume coming from Amanda's lists. Just compare it
> to other lists: on linux-ipsec, you get spammed all day and no RBL is
> helping it...
>
Judging from activity on lists I manage, there are now spammers
(and maybe spambots) who go around looking for lists, subscribing,
then spamming.
I can usually spot 'em when I see "has been subscribed to"
messages for the same user on all the lists around here. Including
a couple of lists that haven't been decommissioned but have zero
volume and are of no earthly interest to anybody now living. Have
thought about adding something that monitors that sort of activity
and auto-unsubscribes the email address in question, or at
least forwards any posts to list maintainers for approval.
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