Re: Good Day - spamassin

2002-09-12 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2002-09-12 at 10:20:39 +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote: --On Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2002 14:04 +0300 Samuli Suonpaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would rather see that the spam senders see a bounce email that fills up their boxes with returned undeliverables.. So if some spammes forged

we all hate spam (was: Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl)

2002-07-04 Thread Jussi Ekholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:13:30PM -0700, Rafael wrote: Since I do not tolerate any level of spam If you do not tolerate any level of spam, you are not using e-mail. Sorry, but spam exists. I hate it, you

Re: we all hate spam (was: Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl)

2002-07-04 Thread Rafael
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:28:35AM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:13:30PM -0700, Rafael wrote: Since I do not tolerate any level of spam If you do not tolerate any level of

Re: we all hate spam (was: Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl)

2002-07-04 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Rafael wrote: As I said, I might hang around for some time Please don't. Please go back to whichever Red Hat list it was that threw you out for spewing flame-bait all over them; with the attitude problem you display, and ignorance of real-life conditions in the world of

Re: Good Day - spamassin

2002-07-03 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a silly question ... if spamassassin caught the spam, i assume it still received the spam and dumped it into a rejected spam folder ??? i would rather see that the spam senders see a bounce email that fills up their boxes with returned undeliverables.. So

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Rafael
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:08:19AM +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: Unlike most spam, this one has actually resulted in some arrests. Well, not this one specifically, it's been going on for a while with multiple different people/groups attempting the Spanish Prisoner con game. Thanks for the

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Bron Gondwana
Rafael said: What bothers me in all of this is that Debian lists are managed so poorly to let this happen. I subscribed to 6 debian mailing lists recently, dropped two right away because there was so much spam I've never seen before. Today I received 8 messages related to that f*ng crap from

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:01:40PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: I believe that it's an intentional policy not to reject anything on the grounds that it _may_ be a valid poster, and guilty because of some minor configuration error should not mean automated lockout. It would be nice if we

RE: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Howland, Curtis
What bothers me in all of this is that Debian lists are managed so poorly to let this happen. The Debian lists are deliberately not subscriber only may post on the theory that it's better to press DEL than to prevent someone from posting. However, subscriber only is a simple config option

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:18:16PM +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: What bothers me in all of this is that Debian lists are managed so poorly to let this happen. The Debian lists are deliberately not subscriber only may post on the theory that it's better to press DEL than to prevent

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Rafael
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:01:40PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: Rafael said: .. I believe that it's an intentional policy not to reject anything on the grounds that it _may_ be a valid poster, and guilty because of some minor configuration error should not mean automated

Re: Good Day - spamassin

2002-07-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya a silly question ... if spamassassin caught the spam, i assume it still received the spam and dumped it into a rejected spam folder ??? i would rather see that the spam senders see a bounce email that fills up their boxes with returned undeliverables.. - at least thats what i

RE: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Howland, Curtis
If I remember correctly, doesn't that require sendmail? As for bounce, while Kmail has that feature it does require a real reply-to address. For the vast majority of spam, the reply-to is deliberately obfuscated. apt-get install spamassassin It trapped that one for me as well as 99% of the

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:55:57PM -0700, Rafael wrote: Email should never be accepted from poorly (or intensionaly baddly) setup servers that do not follow RFCs. by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 17Ozil-0003W2-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 06:51:58 -0500

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
Adam Majer écrivait : On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:55:57PM -0700, Rafael wrote: Assuming the spam came from 213.181.64.226 it would be very easy to reject it based on the fact that there is no RR in DNS for that IP. Don't do that please. There are a whole slew of ISPs that do not provide

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Tuesday, 2002-07-02 at 15:02:14 +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: If I remember correctly, doesn't that require sendmail? Doesn't here. I run it from procmail, which is invoked from postfix: (In /etc/procmailrc:) # Spamassasin :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc My personal .procmailrc files supposed Spam in

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya adam most ISP will allow their clients to send outgoing email thru their ( hopefully properly configured ) SMTP server - so all your outgoing emails will have an RR associated with it - problem is that galacticasoftware.com is gonna look like its coming from mail1.foo_isp.net

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Jussi Ekholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:18:16PM +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: The Debian lists are deliberately not subscriber only may post on the theory that it's better to press DEL than to prevent someone from posting.

Re: Good Day - spamassin

2002-07-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi ya a silly question ... if spamassassin caught the spam, i assume it still received the spam and dumped it into a rejected spam folder ??? i would rather see that the spam senders see a bounce email that fills up their boxes with returned

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Bob Nielsen wrote: apt-get install spamassassin It trapped that one for me as well as 99% of the spam I receive. AFAIK, mail addressed to the Debian lists are already filtered using spamassassin, but it's a two years old version. Kind listmaster, when will murphy (or the relevant machine) be

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Corlett
Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Don't do that please. There are a whole slew of ISPs that do not provide RR for some stupid little reason. For addresses assigned by RIPE, all users of IP addresses have the right to have reverse DNS if they want it. Does ARIN not have a similar policy?

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:05:25AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: members of a list, should be able to post to the list... even if they have broken rr and are listed ( incorrectly ) as spammers... member's only posting will fix that .. It sure will, but being this the security list, let's

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:55:57PM -0700, Rafael wrote: Assuming the spam came from 213.181.64.226 it would be very easy to reject it based on the fact that there is no RR in DNS for that IP. I don't agree with the policy of rejecting mail due to a lack of a reverse DNS entry. However,

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Tim Haynes
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't agree with the policy of rejecting mail due to a lack of a reverse DNS entry. However, rfc-ignorant.org runs several nice blacklists, including ip-whois, which I subscribe to. This blacklist contains netblocks for which no valid whois

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:30:52PM +0100, Tim Haynes wrote: Given that rfc-ignorant lists *.uk for not having contact info, would you like to refine that to `shite idea'? That's in the whois.rfc-ignorant.org blacklist. That's not the list I was talking about. And it is not rfc-ignorant's

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yeah, I still get a few false positives and have had to tweak things a bit (adding whitelist entries, etc.) Something strange has happened in the past few days, however. I started seeing messages that didn't appear to have gone through spamassassin at all. Some of these were obviously spam. In

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Rafael
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:17:34AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:05:25AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: members of a list, should be able to post to the list... even if they have broken rr and are listed ( incorrectly ) as spammers... member's only posting will

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:13:30PM -0700, Rafael wrote: It sure will, but being this the security list, let's say someone found a root crack in let's say, the inetd server. And their post gets thrown out because no RR. Hmmm, no one gets warned and some worm starts going around and their

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread John Goerzen
Ironically enough, Rafael's server rejected my message for the sole reason that Savvis broke reverse DNS for the colo facility my box is at 2 weeks ago and has been slow to fix it. Shows you right away why these restrictions are bad. -- John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:29:22PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: No, it's a perfectly valid reason. Just because other admins do not perfectly mirror your opinions does not mean that they are stupid. Not only that, but there are a number of Debian users and developers that, for various reasons,

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Tim Haynes
Phillip Hofmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:29:22PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: No, it's a perfectly valid reason. Just because other admins do not perfectly mirror your opinions does not mean that they are stupid. Not only that, but there are a number of Debian

Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl

2002-07-02 Thread Greg Hunt
Since I do not tolerate any level of spam I consider it immature to run a professional mailing list like debian security so that it can be abused by the most stupid script kiddie. Sorry but the impression I got so far is semiprofessional. Cannot recommend it for use at work when people don't

Re: Good Day

2002-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:12:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Yeah, I still get a few false positives and have had to tweak things a bit (adding whitelist entries, etc.) Something strange has happened in the past few days, however. I started seeing messages that didn't appear to have gone

Re: Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Olle Hedman
At 08:25 2002-01-07, Mr.Muyiwa Ige wrote: [a load of bullshit] If anyone wonders what that mail was, read here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm ///Olle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:07:37PM +0200, Olle Hedman wrote: At 08:25 2002-01-07, Mr.Muyiwa Ige wrote: [a load of bullshit] If anyone wonders what that mail was, read here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm And forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with full headers intact, of

RE: Good Day

2002-07-01 Thread Howland, Curtis
Unlike most spam, this one has actually resulted in some arrests. Well, not this one specifically, it's been going on for a while with multiple different people/groups attempting the Spanish Prisoner con game. Thanks for the email address for the Fed.Gov investigation. Curt- If anyone wonders