Re: This list is wide open for spam posters
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Brent Fox wrote:
> Please go into GNU mailman list privacy settings and make the
> list subscriber-only. Alternatively, please post rationale for
> it remaining a spam list please. ;o)
>
> I'd like to unsubscribe if it remains spammable, as I get enough
> spam already. ;o)
This list is and has always been subscriber-only.
uijlqfjaboez(a)spammotel.com has a valid entry in the GNU mailman
subscriber list. For all I know, the list is getting junk mail from his
address that is being spoofed due to the latest viruses that are going
around.
Username == uijlqfjaboez
IMHO sound like a bogus user account to me, set up for the
purposes of spamming.
and
hostname == spammotel.com
sounds equally suspicious. Personally I'd remove the account
based on that alone, but that's just me. ;o)
I'd hate to kick somebody off for something that is beyond their
control. Heck, I've been getting spam from myself with this MyDoom
virus...I guess I should procmail myself to /dev/null. ;)
You don't have an account name that looks like a cat typed it on
the keyboard, or it was generated from /dev/urandom though, nor a
hostname with "spam" in the name. ;o)
Perhaps I'm being too much of a BOFH, who's to say... ;o)
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Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat