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Subject: Re: Directed attacks on mailing lists (?)
From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <paulh @ imc . org>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 10:59:30 -0800
To: mcb @ postmodern . com (Michael C. Berch), List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199712250751.XAA18687@server.postmodern.com>
References: <m3lnxaj9cs.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>

>Now, if you wanted amore sophisticated interface to the log, or
>have Majordomo remember "state" with respect to certain addresses or
>lists, that's a programming project, of course.  But simply logging
>all incoming list requests goes a long way toward discovering and
>tracking down abuse.   And the files compress very nicely. 

...and can be processed quite nicely as well. A Perl script to go and pull
out the blocks of headers from this king of archive should be under 20
lines long (look for \nFrom:, save until you get to \n\n, repeat).


--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium


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