Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:26:17 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: News gateway problem |
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Albert Cahalan writes: > Can we cut off this source of spam? > > First the gateway is used to collect email addresses. Then it > actually lets spam hit the mailing list. The only email account > of mine which gets spam is the one used to mail linux-kernel. > > For news-to-mail, I ask that the gateway require a Linux: header > in the message. The gateway should drop cancel messages instead > of pass them to the list like it does now. > > For mail-to-news, I ask that the From:, Reply-To:, and other > headers with an email address be changed to have randomly > generated addresses such as 1f98a759@f37a.3dcd.com.
It looks like we have to start taking action to prevent spam (as much as we can, anyway). This seems like a good idea. I just recently received 3 spam messages, presumably linux-kernel related (although I haven't actually sent any message to this list for over a month). Friends, if you can spare a minute, please send a "please don't spam" message together with a uuencoded copy of /usr/bin/emacs to the follow addresses:
ab.general@atlas.uniserve.com ktechsys@interport.net decicco@ix.netcom.com
I won't chew more bandwidth by including the actual spam (available on request to those who actually care). Now, back to what matters...
Regards,
Richard....
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