Re: This list is wide open for spam posters

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Brent Fox wrote:

>> Please go into GNU mailman list privacy settings and make the 
>> list subscriber-only.  Alternatively, please post rationale for 
>> it remaining a spam list please.  ;o)
>> 
>> I'd like to unsubscribe if it remains spammable, as I get enough 
>> spam already.  ;o)
>
>This list is and has always been subscriber-only.  
>
>uijlqfjaboez spammotel com has a valid entry in the GNU mailman
>subscriber list.  For all I know, the list is getting junk mail from his
>address that is being spoofed due to the latest viruses that are going
>around.  

Username == uijlqfjaboez

IMHO sound like a bogus user account to me, set up for the 
purposes of spamming.

and

hostname == spammotel.com

sounds equally suspicious.  Personally I'd remove the account 
based on that alone, but that's just me.  ;o)


>I'd hate to kick somebody off for something that is beyond their
>control.  Heck, I've been getting spam from myself with this MyDoom
>virus...I guess I should procmail myself to /dev/null.  ;)

You don't have an account name that looks like a cat typed it on 
the keyboard, or it was generated from /dev/urandom though, nor a 
hostname with "spam" in the name.  ;o)

Perhaps I'm being too much of a BOFH, who's to say...  ;o)


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