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Subject: Re: Bad news -- E-cards from Heineken
From: Jerry Peek <jerry @ ora . com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:31:53 EST
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: selene@niagara.com (Rowan Shirkie) "Bad news -- E-cards from Heineken" (Feb 11, 13:46)

On Feb 11, 13:46, Rowan Shirkie wrote:
} Some misguided person sent my entire mailing list an "e-card" from the
} Heineken World Wide Web server in the Netherlands. A silly .gif file with a
} message. ...
} If this technique proliferates, blocking
} originating addresses one-by-one in Majordomo seems futile.

Has anyone set up Majordomo or other MLMs to route messages with certain
MIME contents to the list owner for approval?  For instance, this
message has really suspicious headers (in this case, in a body part):

} >Content-Type: image/gif; name="e-card-59578.gif"
} >Content-Disposition: inline; filename="e-card-59578.gif"

You could also search for big chunks of text without much whitespace --
like base64 or uuencoded text.

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com

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