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

JLB jlb at twu.net
Tue May 17 01:53:39 GMT 2005


On Mon, 16 May 2005, JLB wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:52:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: JLB <jlb at twu.net>
> To: Ed Kasky <ed at esson.net>
> Cc: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>, samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: nazi spam in German over list address
> 
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ed Kasky wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:47:34 -0700
>> From: Ed Kasky <ed at esson.net>
>> To: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: nazi spam in German over list address
>> Resent-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:58:52 -0400 (EDT)
>> Resent-From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>
>> Resent-To: samba at samba.org
>> Resent-Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: nazi spam in German over list address
>> 
>> At 09:50 AM Monday, 5/16/2005, you wrote -=>
>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If its not spam, then it will be virus that forge headers
>>>> and claim to come from a list members address.  There is no
>>>> silver bullet to solve this issue without moderating every
>>>> post.
>>> 
>>> But if the policy was only subscriber posting then, we would know that 
>>> were the case with certainty, from the start. Then you would remove the 
>>> member's subscription until his/her computer is fixed.
>>> 
>>> Once again, close this list to members only.
>> 
>> Seconded.  With a closed list, virus and spam protection, it would 
>> certainly cut down on the amount of junk that gets posted and would be easy 
>> to identify the offender.
>
> I'd go further and cut down on membership to people emailing from non-Windows 
> systems (including Webmail systems, until someone invents a worm that spreads 
> through those...)

Err, rather, limit membership to only people who are emailing from 
non-Windows systems.

>
>> 
>> 
>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>> Randomly Generated Quote (39 of 974):
>> "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their
>> reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
>> Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or
>> nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in
>> season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted
>> ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
>> - Susan B. Anthony
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