BLU list spam

Tom Metro blu at vl.com
Fri Jun 30 16:26:19 EDT 2006


Anyone else notice the spams showing up on the list today? It appears 
there is a simple short term fix for this, and I sent the message below 
to the list admins a few days ago, but it either got lost or is being 
ignored. (Oddly it seems any time I've emailed BLU list admins during 
the past few years at the addresses below, I've never received a response.)
  -Tom


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: BLU list spam
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:43:32 -0400
To: discuss-owner at blu.org
CC: jabr at blu.org,  gaf at blu.org

It appears some spammer has hit upon the magic combination of forging a
list member's address while sending spam to the list address. We
received one of these a week or so ago, and now three today. Here are
the full headers from one of the three messages:

Received: from olduvai.blu.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	by olduvai.blu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D3F4D183BF4; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
X-Original-To: discuss at olduvai.blu.org
Delivered-To: discuss at olduvai.blu.org
Received: from asgard.blu.org (asgard.blu.org [216.235.254.231])
	by olduvai.blu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954F4183BAD
	for <discuss at olduvai.blu.org>; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:34:16 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by asgard.blu.org (Postfix)
	id 8AF9F2747F; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:34:16 -0400 (EDT)
Delivered-To: discuss at blu.org
Received: from sempron (unknown [201.10.82.122])
	by asgard.blu.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A156927455
	for <discuss at blu.org>; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [215.4.161.67] (port=1417 helo=215.4.161.67)
	by blu.org with esmtp id MBusLH-4dI297-47
	for discuss at blu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:13:55 -1200
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:13:55 -1200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
Message-ID: <26061048.20060628071356 at blu.org>
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: one pill brings loads of pleasure
Thread-Index: nQZREFdNhsbahVeUkZbZWukw58bc9p==
From: "Lee" <jabr at blu.org>
To: discuss at blu.org
X-Return-Path: jabr at blu.org
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: discuss at blu.org
X-MDAV-Processed: blu.org, Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:13:55 -1200
X-Spam: Not detected
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0626-2, 28/06/2006), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Subject: one pill brings loads of pleasure
X-BeenThere: discuss at blu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: BLU general discussion list <discuss.blu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>,
	<mailto:discuss-request at blu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss>
List-Post: <mailto:discuss at blu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:discuss-request at blu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>,
	<mailto:discuss-request at blu.org?subject=subscribe>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0857733584=="
Sender: discuss-bounces at blu.org
Errors-To: discuss-bounces at blu.org



A short term fix - providing this is just a fluke and the spammers
haven't accomplished this feat intentionally - might be to have John
Abreau subscribe to the list using a different address.

  -Tom




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