Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:01:15 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Postfix and Majordomo security (was FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE) Message-ID: <20010212180115.A42554@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <200102111357.f1BDvGU36876@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:57:16AM -0800 References: <009c01c093e5$d1cd7230$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> <200102111357.f1BDvGU36876@mobile.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm on 2001-02-11 (Sun) at 05:57:16 -0800: > > Regarding spam, the thought just occurred to me that we can catch a lot of > it by checking that the list name appears in a To: or CC: line somewhere. > eg: If mail to -current does not have '.*current@freebsd.org' in the To: or > CC: line (most spam has got fakeuser@hotmail.com or something), then bounce > it. > > I suspect that would catch almost all of the spam that currently slips > through the content filters. My own very subjective experience (i.e. I didn't try to keep any hard stats) on the lists I run is that this is good for catching probably 95% or more of current spam. Let's hope the authors of mass mailers don't get wise to this. :-/ -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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