On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:47:29 +0200, Michael Polak wrote:

> Clarence Verge wrote:

>> I like Glenn's idea above.
>> Please warn us if you are willing to do it and then
>> just delete  /home/majordomo/lists/arachne.

> But if no one wants the mailing list, why there is still so significant
> traffic going to arachne-digest every day ? (well, I am not reading it
> any more... but arachne-digest appear in my INBOX quite often... still I
> don't have idea how the spam can get in, I deleted most of e-mails in
> wizards list, the originating addresses are not subscribed... it's weird...)

The spam is getting in because [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is an 'in effect' "open relay".

Anyone can send a message to it and it 'acts like' any other open relay.

So.....

[EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be 'blocked'

also....

[EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to setup so that only those who are subscribed
can send to it.

As for "But if no one wants the mailing list,"

Many of us still *do* want t.

The problem is that many who are subscribed *do not* want to be.

Those who do not.... can't unbsub. :(((

IMO,
If you delete the entire list of subscribers
(both arachne and arachne-digest), and then only those
who want to continue to get the list go ahead
and re-subscribe........... problem solved. :)))



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