[Samba] Re: nazi spam in German over list address

Daniel S. Haischt me at daniel.stefan.haischt.name
Mon May 16 16:56:07 GMT 2005


Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:00 +0200, Lars Grobe wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>whoever is able to unsubscribe addresses from the list: I am currently
>>getting lots of spam with nazi content over this mailing list. 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately we are all to well aware of this problem, but as the long-
> standing policy of samba.org lists is to allow public posting, we are
> between a rock and a hard place.
> 
> This has certainly been one of the more egregious examples, and perhaps
> the harder to filter, lacking the HTML and other tell-tail signs of our
> regular pill-spam and loan-spam.  It certainly seems that we are not
> alone: http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-15-n27.html
> 
> I will remind all list participants of: http://samba.org/samba/ml-
> etiquette.html
> 
> I'm sorry we can't do much more about this, 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
> 

Basically if re-training your SPAM filter does not help and
one really wants to get rid of all those junk mails, installing
a challenge/response system like TMDA behind a statistical
filter (e.g. DSPAM) would be a possible solution ...

-- 
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards
DAn.I.El S. Haischt

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