hi all, i also have been receiving hundreds of mailer-daemon messages -- apparently, the spammer has harvested e-mail address from this list and others and used my address as the from:
large quantities of these messages are quite "legitimate" bounces from real smtp servers, so i have to install filters to class them as spam. Ayeee. Charles On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:05 +0100, Alain Williams wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:40:25PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2005, Patrick Gibson wrote: > > > > >Is there any particular reason why info-cyrus is not a closed list? It is > > >unnecessary in my opinion to be receiving spam via a list that can easily > > >restrict posting to subscribed members. > > > > The spam can be (and on other lists has been) forged as from members. Then > > what? > > Quite possible ... but more difficult for the spammer to do. > > Making it closed would improve matters. > > I would also like to see '[info-cyrus]' put on the subject line. > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html