Re: Fwd: [ISN] Majordomo Could Mean Major Spam

[Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jay Woody wrote:

> Seems like every other week, someone sends a note to a list I am on that
> says, "I don't use this account for anything but lists and now it is
> getting spam."  This may be why.  If you are running a list using
> majordomo, here is some info you may want to be aware of.

Fortunately we don't use majordomo here at SecurityFocus. We also fudge
email addresses in our mailing list archives
(www.securityfocus.com/archive) as of a couple of months ago, in order to
fool the spambot spiders. Before we started filtering SoBig.F, this list
was receiving up to a thousand pieces of SoBig spam a day. Ah, the joys of
being a moderator. :)

I hope the only spam you receive from our lists now are the Out of Office
notifications when you post messages... I always remove the offending
users from the list when I receive these, but it's a persistant,
never-ending task.

Regards,
-- Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com> Moderator Security-Basics

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