[ On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 06:35:47 (-0800), Wim Kerkhoff wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Spam on info-cvs list. > > I got fed up, so on Saturday installed SpamAssassin in conjuction with > Vipul's Razor. It seems to work extremely well, and I suggest others to > do the same. I checked my 'caughtspam' folder (where all spam gets > filtered to after being defanged) this morning. Every spam message sent > to the list since Saturday was trapped.
The problem is with distribution of the spam. I don't even want to receive it, let alone be one of the hundreds of people who has to filter out my own individual copy of it. Spammers get free distribution with lists and it saves them a bundle. List maintainers must learn to be ruthless at stopping spam. Restricted posting (allowing only subscribers and their registered alternate posting addresses to post) is apparently VERY effective on all the other mailing lists I'm on. On the other hand even if the list distribution host blocked all mail from known open relays (eg. those listed in relays.orbz.org) and from sites listed in bl.spamcop.net I guarantee there'd be only a tiny fraction of the current spams would have made it onto the list (I've checked many of them manually, so I know this to be factual). For example the spam that came out from the .kr site early this AM would have been blocked: $ rblookup 211.48.62.161 161.62.48.211.xbl.selwerd.cx CNAME kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx A 127.0.0.4 161.62.48.211.xbl.selwerd.cx CNAME kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx TXT "no rDNS on mail4.kornet,net" kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx TXT "open relays that stay open" kornet.xbl.selwerd.cx TXT "spam" 161.62.48.211.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com CNAME kornet.net.spam.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com kornet.net.spam.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com A 127.0.0.2 161.62.48.211.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com CNAME kornet.net.spam.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com kornet.net.spam.blackholes.five-ten-sg.com TXT "added 2001-04-23; no reverse dns; original spam from 211.35.169.236" 161.62.48.211.ztl.dorkslayers.com A 127.0.0.2 161.62.48.211.ztl.dorkslayers.com TXT "211.48.62.161 is listed by ztl.dorkslayers.com" 161.62.48.211.outputs.orbz.org A 127.0.0.2 161.62.48.211.outputs.orbz.org TXT "Open relay. Please see http://orbz.org/?211.48.62.161" -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs