Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:22, Jan Schmidt wrote: > The key points that people are missing here: * And nobody seems to be generating Mailman reports yet. :-( -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
> If the s3kr1t keyword is '[SLUG]' and it has to appear in the subject, > then I think we'd block at least 95% of spam. (to start with) > > plus you don't need to worry about replying, because your mailer > will include '[SLUG]' in the header automatically. > The key points that people are mis

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony Wood
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:45:05AM +1100, Benno wrote: > On Tue Nov 04, 2003 at 08:36:09 +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: > >With my limited knowledge of such things, it seems like a lot of spam > >could be prevented by blocking all mail that does not contain a simple keyword. > >This keyword could be inc

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Benno
On Tue Nov 04, 2003 at 08:36:09 +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: >With my limited knowledge of such things, it seems like a lot of spam >could be prevented by blocking all mail that does not contain a simple keyword. >This keyword could be included in the footer of all mail going to the >list as a reminde

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Vogel
With my limited knowledge of such things, it seems like a lot of spam could be prevented by blocking all mail that does not contain a simple keyword. This keyword could be included in the footer of all mail going to the list as a reminder. It could even change from time to time. Have I overlooked

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Peter Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I'll also be looking in to generating useful statistics from the mailman >> logs, so we can have a much firmer idea of how effective the current >> strategies are. Is there an

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-10-31 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, David Kempe wrote: > I had an idea once that to train these type of packages easily you could put > a hyperlink at the bottom so you could train with a click. Much easier on > admins etc. > Of course it wouldn't make sense for the whole slug list to train. > If you could have a

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-10-31 Thread David Kempe
- Original Message - From: "Peter Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'll also be looking in to generating useful statistics from the mailman > logs, so we can have a much firmer idea of how effective the current > strategies are. Is there any packages around that already do this? Any > advice

[SLUG] Email hacking

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 22:45, Mary Gardiner wrote: > If you feel absolutely compelled to discuss this any further, do so on > slug-chat. (Unless you are asking about configuration for lists YOU > run.) Well, now that you mention it... ;-) I'd just like to clear up a few things that seemed to be lef