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Subject: Circumventing restricted-post
From: TC Hazzard <hazbro @ gwi . net>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:04:47 -0400 (EDT)
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

I am running Majordomo v1.94.4. I have one list I use for broadcast only
and for this reason, was configured with restricted-post set. All has
been fine for about 8 months. But this past week, someone who was not
even on this list as far as I can tell, spammed the list. What followed
were about 1600 other volleys pertaining to this spam, which all were
successfully sent to the entire list. Any thoughts on how this could be?
I have triple checked the config file for this list and tested posts and
have not been able to post. My thought is that some devious person found
out how to determine who was allowed to post and then proceeded to munge
the headers to get their spam through.

Thanks in advance.

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TC Hazzard
Great State of Maine



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