BLU list spam

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I'm not sure if JABR got this, but JABR is or was in process of setting up 
spam filters for the lists. 
A lot of the SPAM simply gets rejected. 
On Friday 30 June 2006 4:26 pm, Tom Metro wrote:
> 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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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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