Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
snip (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) Well I am the admin of one of the irresponsible virus responders, which I will be whitelisting all the @amanda.org addresses when I get into the office on Monday. But in my defense the program is acting in the normal sense since no headers are being set letting MailScanner identify this email being from a mailling list... Anyways sorry for the inconvience, no need to shoot me... -Steve
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
On Monday 17 November 2003 02:57, Steven Clark wrote: snip (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) Well I am the admin of one of the irresponsible virus responders, which I will be whitelisting all the @amanda.org addresses when I get into the office on Monday. But in my defense the program is acting in the normal sense since no headers are being set letting MailScanner identify this email being from a mailling list... Anyways sorry for the inconvience, no need to shoot me... -Steve Aww, gee Steve, you're taking all the fun out of it! Besides, we need the target practice. But frankly, what we'ed like to do is format the hard drives of the machines sending this crap. Its p-poor maintainance that allows it to occur. :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
lots of virus e-mails spam
hello , it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list because I just started using the amanda backup program and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or virusses what's going on here ? willy
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
Willy Wittesaele wrote: it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list because I just started using the amanda backup program and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or virusses Ah, You want the amanda *backup* program. This appears to be the Antisocial Misdirected Autoresponder Notification Dumping Archive. I made the same mistake. :-/ (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 SnapGear - Custom Embedded Solutions and Security Appliances
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
On Sunday 16 November 2003 17:18, Phil Homewood wrote: Willy Wittesaele wrote: it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list because I just started using the amanda backup program and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or virusses Ah, You want the amanda *backup* program. This appears to be the Antisocial Misdirected Autoresponder Notification Dumping Archive. I made the same mistake. :-/ (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) I'll second that motion. One message a few hours ago was stripped of what I'd assume was a copy of swen, and that generated 5 more autoresponder replies to be deleted. OTOH, all 6, after the stripping by whatever stripped it, were about 130 kilobytes less than 1 copy of the virii, (140.5k) so we have a net gain in usable bandwidth. They get in because this is an open list. However, after the last few weeks I'd vote to close it, and allow read only of its archives for the general public, with write privs only to those subscribed. No more trouble than it is to subscribe, and as quick as it can be done, I don't see a very good reason to keep it open to every spam spewer on the planet. Oh, and I vote for the use of the 'shoot' option at least as a last resort. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:31:09PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I'll second that motion. ---cut--- They get in because this is an open list. However, after the last few weeks I'd vote to close it, and allow read only of its archives for the general public, with write privs only to those subscribed. No more trouble than it is to subscribe, and as quick as it can be done, I don't see a very good reason to keep it open to every spam spewer on the planet. Man, I second _that_ motion!!! Oh, and I vote for the use of the 'shoot' option at least as a last resort. First resort, anyone? -- Steve Lane /\ Doudna Lab \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign U. C. BerkeleyX Against HTML Email / \
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
Steve Lane wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:31:09PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: I'll second that motion. ---cut--- They get in because this is an open list. However, after the last few weeks I'd vote to close it, and allow read only of its archives for the general public, with write privs only to those subscribed. No more trouble than it is to subscribe, and as quick as it can be done, I don't see a very good reason to keep it open to every spam spewer on the planet. Man, I second _that_ motion!!! Oh, and I vote for the use of the 'shoot' option at least as a last resort. First resort, anyone? -- Steve Lane /\ Doudna Lab \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign U. C. BerkeleyX Against HTML Email / \ It doesn't seem irrational to close the list to posting from subscribers only. Most of the lists I read these days require subscription for posting. You have to subscribe to read the list, and why would we want people posting who aren't interested in reading the list? It doesn't seem like it would be that much greater of a burden administratively speaking, so I don't know why it would be such a bad idea. Of course, I don't run the list either, so its just me spewing electrons. Josh
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:14:48PM -0600, Josh Welch wrote: It doesn't seem irrational to close the list to posting from subscribers only. Most of the lists I read these days require subscription for posting. You have to subscribe to read the list, Not really, you have to subscribe to get it delivered. You can read it on yahoo and on marc.theaimsgroup.com and maybe other archives. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:14:48PM -0600, Josh Welch wrote: It doesn't seem irrational to close the list to posting from subscribers only. Most of the lists I read these days require subscription for posting. You have to subscribe to read the list, Not really, you have to subscribe to get it delivered. You can read it on yahoo and on marc.theaimsgroup.com and maybe other archives. Valid point, but I still think its not irrational to restrict posting to subscribers. Josh
lots of virus e-mails spam
hello , it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list because I just started using the amanda backup program and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or virusses what's going on here ? willy
Re: lots of virus e-mails spam
On Sunday 16 November 2003 17:18, Phil Homewood wrote: Willy Wittesaele wrote: it's now about 1 week that i'm subscribed to this list because I just started using the amanda backup program and this is the list that generates the most of spam and/or virusses Ah, You want the amanda *backup* program. This appears to be the Antisocial Misdirected Autoresponder Notification Dumping Archive. I made the same mistake. :-/ (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) I'll second that motion. One message a few hours ago was stripped of what I'd assume was a copy of swen, and that generated 5 more autoresponder replies to be deleted. OTOH, all 6, after the stripping by whatever stripped it, were about 130 kilobytes less than 1 copy of the virii, (140.5k) so we have a net gain in usable bandwidth. They get in because this is an open list. However, after the last few weeks I'd vote to close it, and allow read only of its archives for the general public, with write privs only to those subscribed. No more trouble than it is to subscribe, and as quick as it can be done, I don't see a very good reason to keep it open to every spam spewer on the planet. Oh, and I vote for the use of the 'shoot' option at least as a last resort. - -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
