Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:08:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: gjb@gbch.net (Greg Black), jruigrok@via-net-works.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <200011021508.IAA07466@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <22848.973160895@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Nov 02, 2000 02:28:15 AM
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> > You know that and I know that and probably all the legitimate > > subscribers to the list know that -- but we're dealing with > > cretins here, and so we need to take effective steps against > > them. I don't want to unsubscribe, but I don't want all the > > junk either. > > I've just blocked them and a few other robot-driven sites who appear > driven to only increase the problem by generating automated replies. > > - Jordan [ ... ] > 1. configure all autoresponders to never send anything with > Precedence: bulk in the header, > > 2. close the list, as it was proposed. 3. Automatically delete all MIME parts with: Content-Type: application/* Which are ever sent via the list software. 4. Refuse to accept messages with the header: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service* (mail from users of Outlook) [The asterisks are a globbing pattern] It seems that this Peter person is the guy doing the resending; we could also just block him, until he upgrades his email client so that it's no longer vulnerable to this worm (not virus: people who write antivirus software are so bad with terminology). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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