You could have a first message approval policy; by this I mean, before I can send messages to the listserv, you would have to approve of my first one.
Sort of like packet filtering, but with e-mails. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:17 AM Subject: Re: Spam from linux-newbie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This is simply too vague to permit a decent reply > > I wanted to be vague just not to make it easier for the spammer and to see the > reaction of other subscribers. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > .... spam by apparently a subscriber to this list linux-newbie. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > "apparently"? What does that mean? > > It means the mail comes in just as it comes from a regular (no-spammer) > subscriber. > > The spammer continuously changes the hostname and uses somewhere along hotmail > and that isp showing in Message-Id:. > > So the spammer must continuously register with this list under continuously > changing names. > > I sent an abuse to hotmail, however, since it is not from them they can't do > anything they said. To send an abuse to the isp appearing in the Message-Id: > would most likely be futile since by the name of it it must be the spammers > own isp. (see Jim's mail) > > The spam Jim cited and your example seem to come from the same source as my > spam which I had a little problem of filtering out due to its chameleon style > posting. > > Regards > > -- > Peter > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
