From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 11:14:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA04885 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 11:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04876 Sun, 12 May 1996 11:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA09710; Sun, 12 May 1996 14:14:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 14:14:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605121814.AA09710@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: James Raynard Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamming of FreBSD-questions In-Reply-To: <199605111846.SAA28076@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <199605101728.KAA10576@freefall.freebsd.org> <199605111846.SAA28076@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >>>>>> "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: >> >> FreeBSD-questions was spammed today. >> >> i have taken steps to minimize the damage and prevent this person >> from repeating the problem. > Thanks Jonathan. > On a slightly different admin note, I keep seeing lines like these, > immediately before the headers, when I read the FreeBSD mailing lists:- > Original-Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by > freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10636 > Fri, 10 May 1996 10:29:03 -0700 (PDT) > PP-warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line There appears to be a missing semicolon after the `id' parameter and before the date. I.e., the received line should appear: Received: from wherever (this is a comment) by some.host.org (another comment) with SMTP id some-queue-id ; ^ date-in-822-format-here -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant