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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:53:04 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses.
Message-ID:  <xzpfzcstspb.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040301032856.GA10110@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:28:56 -0800")
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402291639340.27862-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040301032856.GA10110@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer?
> > getting really annoying..
> Yeah, but what do you expect anyone to do about it?

Swen and MyDoom are easy to detect and reject at the SMTP stage.  The
fact that our mail servers don't do this is a PITA, as it forces list
subscribers to accept them as well (if you reject list mail because it
contains a virus, Mailman disables your subscription)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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