Jakarta website has a very unfortunate and harmful feature - a full mbox
archive at

   http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/

This is an invitation to spammers and people who spread viruses. And all
those types are gladly taking advantage of it. Here is a few facts:

1. I've been receiving quiet a lot of emails with Outlook viruses
(couldn't care less of course - I never used Outlook :-)) allegedly from
people that I saw posting on this mailing list. Ok, I disregarded those.
There are people who do use Outlook and they may have been infected, and
happened to have my old messages in the INBOX or something.

2. Now I noticed that my address is being used in some kind of distributed
virus attack (I see up to 20 bounces a day from invalid addesses claiming
that I sent the original message). Bounces IPs check just fine (aol.com,
sun.com, a few other known domains), so bounces themselves are not spam.
But information in the quoted bounced messages (that contain a virus among
other things) has some correlation with Jakarta comminity members.

Makes me wonder....

[PROPOSAL]

There maybe other exlanations for these things, but still it would be wise
to pull the archives out of the site. Of course there are people who would
want to search them for information (since browseable Jakarta archives are
....well, should I say hard to use :-)), but those archives can be
transferred to gmane.org or something...

Thoughts? Anyone else got hit by that (I remember someone posting
something similar long time ago).

Andrus Adamchik
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  http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/





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