Re: FW: advertisemnet - grand opening lots of free jewelry

Re: FW: advertisemnet - grand opening lots of free jewelry

[Nadav Har'El]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001, Christopher White wrote about "FW: advertisemnet - grand opening lots of free jewelry":
> Dear Zsh People,
> 
> I don't know how or why this SPAM had my server's name in its address, but I
> want to assure you that this bulk mailing did not come from my domain.  I
> just checked my maillog to make sure, but since we don't allow relaying from
> any other domain, the From: header must be bogus.  Again, I don't know why
> they're using my server's name in the address.

Actually, don't worry - they are not using your server name. Everyone got
their own domain in the From: header (I got:
	From: twoheartsofgold.com@mailgw1.technion.ac.il
). I'm not sure why that happened - apparently some mailer on the way, either
the mailing list program or our own mailers, so a From: without a "@", and
decided to stick the local domain at the end.

Anyway, how come such spam is distributed to the mailing list? Is it open for
posting for non-subscribers?

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Re: FW: advertisemnet - grand opening lots of free jewelry

[Oliver Kiddle]

Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 
> Anyway, how come such spam is distributed to the mailing list? Is it open for
> posting for non-subscribers?

It is open for posting by non-subscribers and I think gets a good few
messages from non-subscribers so I'd prefer if we didn't block them.

The mailto: links on the web pages probably aren't helping as spammers
may have got the address from there. Does anyone think that they serve a
useful purpose or should I remove them?

Oliver


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Re: FW: advertisemnet - grand opening lots of free jewelry

[Dominik Vogt]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:49AM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, how come such spam is distributed to the mailing list? Is it open for
> > posting for non-subscribers?
> 
> It is open for posting by non-subscribers and I think gets a good few
> messages from non-subscribers so I'd prefer if we didn't block them.
> 
> The mailto: links on the web pages probably aren't helping as spammers
> may have got the address from there. Does anyone think that they serve a
> useful purpose or should I remove them?

Don't you have spam filterrs installed for the mailing lists?

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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