On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:45:18 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/1/02 6:41 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah. And spam from one address on a site to other addresses on the > site. Some of my mail lists are trying to spam other mail lists on my > site on a regular basis. At first I thought it was @#$@#^$#$% > Klez. I've since realized it was @#$@#%@#%$#%$# ** 2 spammers trying a > new hack. Yeah, the current pattern seems to be two-fold: 1) Deliver to backup MXes in hope of weaker filtering rules 2) Forge the From: header to either another scraped address from the same domain or to a generated address from the same domain. I've had quite a few confused postings from list members asking me why I sent them an offer to increase their breast size/penis_length/whatever. Its to the point where I'm considering going back to authenticating (and then only partially) on envelope. > Hmm. Wonder if Alan actually got my response to his message. His > whitelist told me to eff off. If not, his loss, since I don't bother > jumping through hoops.... <nod> Ditto. That said, among the variants TMDA is rather nice. It will read/whitelist Mailman/ezmlm/etc subscriber lists (config.db), and looks innocuous enough that I'm seriously thinking about deploying it here for the -owner and -admin addresses (which get 1 valid message for every 300 SPAM). Given the extra auth against the subscriber lists it seems a not unreasonable barrier (if unwelcome and I don't like it) to entry for help to a non-list member. <grumble> No way it would ever touch one of my direct addresses, but for something like mailman@ or list-owner@ it might not be so bad an idea (he says piteously). -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
