Re: How do I disabling majordomo temporarily?

[Tom Sahrendt <zeitenflug @ yahoo . com>]

hi there

> How do I disabling majordomo?

put some #s in front of the list alias entries in
/etc/aliases or whatever
file your configuration uses.

one thing: if there is a server up and running, there
will be spammers and
hackers and scriptkiddies trying to break it. as long
as there is one single
html page or one single google news archive posting
out there bearing your
e-mail adress, some spammer is likely to use your
adress for spamming. there
is no way around this. sadly, this is how internet has
grown to be.

there are around 200 spamming attacks on my majordomo
lists daily. they are
not successful, however, cause my configuration
refuses to accept e-mails
containing HTML and/or attachements. since HTML is
utterly useless on the
kind of mailing lists I run, the users do not have a
problem with it. now,
even if some spammer is cunning enough to fake a
member e-mail adress and is
using it to try flodding the list, he can only do this
if he does not use
HTML or attachements - this makes trying often pretty
useless.

anyway, the main problem is sober. sober on the
computers of infected users
takes their outlook adress books and sends itself to
all of them. often
enough, one of my mailing lists is also in the adress
book and thus the
sober virus tries to send itself to this list as well.
but since he has to
attach himself to the e-mail, the e-mail is rejected
by my majordomo due to
having non-text parts.

cu,
Tom



	
	
		
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