Re: spam being sent through list-digest-outgoing

["Michael C. Berch" <mcb @ postmodern . com>]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:39 AM, zuess007 @
zoso .
net wrote:
> I will call my mailing list "list" in hopes to finding a solution  
> to my problem. What is happening is spammers have found a way to  
> send spam directly to the digesters by using "list-digest-outgoing"  
> This spam does not generate with the digest nor does it archive.  
> But it finds its way to all the people in digest mode. I do have  
> root access to this machine as well as the mail aliases, but I am  
> clueless on how to stop this without stopping the digest. Any and  
> all help would be so much appreciated. I am also willing to send a  
> copy of my majordomo aliases if this would help.

My low-tech solution to this was just to rename list-digest-outgoing  
to something not easily guessable, like
"list-digest-outgoing-xyzzy" and changing the other aliases for the  
list to conform.  It's unlikely to be discovered, since a spammer has  
to get their grubby little hands on an actual message to read the  
headers, but if it is, you can change it again.

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Michael C. Berch
mcb @
postmodern .
com