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Subject: Re: majordomo & spam-fighting
From: Tony Curtis <tony @ Relay1 . Austria . EU . net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:11:01 +0200
To: jeffw @ triple-i . com (Jeff Wasilko)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:39:47 PDT." <v02120d00ac34d12aa7ad@[198.211.145.100]>
Reply-to: tony @ relay1 . Austria . EU . net


Jeff> I'm sure you all know now that the olga spammer has
Jeff> hit again.

Jeff> Has there been any consideration to enhancing
Jeff> Majordomo to allow spam-filtering?

If you are referring to Olga and her romance in Russia, then
we've been hit twice within a few weeks.  The first time
caused us no end of trouble, but since then we've tightened
things up a lot and this morning I had about 50 bounced
messages in my inbox, which sounds quite promising, because
the sender presumably got them too (ha!).

 o I have given the internal -outgoing parts of the list obscure
   names, this helps to circumvent backdoor attempts.

 o I have restrict_post'ed the lists to members only (see
   the .config file for the list)

 o I have noadvertise'd quite a number of the internal and
   non-public lists for future protection (/.*/)

 o I have turned on all the private_XXX switches (.config file)

Anything else I can do?

tony


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