A sad tale indeed. Edit your mailservers /etc/mail/access file and put a big fat REJECT by his domain name!
Good luck - Jon Carnes On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 18:49, Roberto Perez wrote: > At 11:54 AM 12/26/03, Jon Carnes wrote: > > >Fortunately Roberto, most spammers don't use Mailman. There is a *lot* > >of other programs out there that allow them to spam from windows boxes > >(as well as Unix). > > That's true in most cases, but in our university we are being spammed with > a news bulletin no one subscribed to, managed by a mailman program. The > spammer has disabled the web interface, and since we did not subscribe > ourselves, we don't have the individual passwords to unsubscribe via email. > In the wrong hands, mailman can unfortunately be a powerful tool ... > > > >Santa has already answered your "ToDo" request, The password command > >retrieves passwords via email > > I got the "help" file from the mailman-administered list described above > (version 2.0.11), and there was no "password" command. Are we maybe talking > about different versions of mailman? Or maybe the "password" command is not > documented in the help file? > > > >- though it is unnecessary as the > >unsubscribe command removes folks without need of the password - you > >have to respond to the email as a confirmation. > > Actually, in this case that I'm describing, sending an email to > "list-request" with an "unsubscribe" command does not work. The message is > rejected with a note saying the right command should be "unsubscribe > <password>", and no confirmation is sent. > > > So, if you (or anyone else) know how to either recover our individual > passwords without a web interface, or unsubscribe in some other way, I'd > appreciate ideas/suggestions. > > Regards, > > > Roberto Perez > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
