On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, James wrote:

>Thus spake Bill Sidhipong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> It could just be misconfigured mail server :-)  Seems innocuous enough,
>> and though I've seen a marked increase in junk mail I receive (is any
>> spammer harvesting amanda-* lists?) I've not seen the original message
>> any more.
>
>Yesh.  I'm willing to bet that's the case.
>
>amanda-users-list is probably the resend alias for amanda-users.  It
>probably hasn't been secured, so anyone can send to it and bypass all the
>majordomo and resend criteria.

Indeed and it pisses the hell out of me.  It's not so freakin' hard to
secure majordomo.  People keep using the damn resend alias instead of
the list address and I've had to add an additional lameness filter to my
procmail setup.

-- 
Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology

"This isn't rocket science -- but it _is_ computer science."
        - Terry Lambert on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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