On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Professional Software Engineering - Lists account wrote:
Actually, the irony here is that those of us who already had the foresight
to filter certain mailers (floodgate and extractor-pro being two well-known
ones that actually identify themselves in the X-Mailer header), didn't get
blasted by the original. I had to look into my unread JUNKMAIL folder to
find the message in question.
Okay, so I'm just beginning to set ours up...
*This* spam wasn't a problem message until everybody started griping about
the spam. Rather than ranting about the spam to the group, perhaps we
should consider the possibility of having the list configured for
subscriber-only submission.
That's what I was griping about in the first place. If the message gets
sent out from the list server, then 1/3 of the damage has been done.
In the long haul, this is likely to provide the most relief from spam
addressed to the list, because it would require the spammer to actually go
through the subscription process (which in itself should end up requiring a
valid return address - something that it seems spammers aren't fond of
providing), a process which take a bit more effort than simply adding the
list address to their spam mailing file.
I think it would be better in the long run to just configure the list
server to filter, that way when a new one gets through we can all be aware
of it. But maybe that'd be a better task for one of the spam lists.
Wil
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