RE: [WinMac] Spam, anyone?

From: Daniel L. Schwartz (expresso[at]snip.net)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 03:35:41 PDT

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            David,

            You might want to check to make sure your domain is not in the ORBS
    database, since your server was not secured against relaying.
    <http://www.orbs.org>.

            Also, since you're so sensitive to spam, you may want to resubscribe to
    this list with a new address.

            Cheers!
            Dan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: David Bell
    Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 5:52 AM
    To: winmac@lists.best.com
    Subject: Re: [WinMac] Spam, anyone?

    >On Sat, 20 May 2000, Bruce Johnson wrote:
    >
            [cut]

    >As Tim said...Spam is more or less a fact of life; I hit delete and go on.

    It's only a fact of life if people aren't prepared to do anything about it.
    This
    is just like Interia Selling. No one wants the stuff but because they never
    get
    around to doing anything about it it just keeps on coming.

    >BTW, you may be wrong about that address the spam is coming from...I
    >haven't noticed any new upsurge in spam to the address I'm subscribed from
    >on this list.

    I'm not wrong - I have only used this particular address to subscribe to
    Win-Mac. It may well be that the reason you haven't seen an upsurge in SPAM
    to
    your address is that it's already known to spammers.

    Perhaps I'm extra senstive to SPAM at the moment because about 5 weeks ago
    someone started sending out SPAM with a forged return address within our
    domain.
    Having to deal with 600 bounced messages and requests from the spammers
    victims
    to unsubscribe from the list (as if I could do anything about it!) in the
    sapce
    of about 3 weeks has made me just the teensiest bit more militant about the
    whole thing! Perhaps you might have a different view at the end of that too!

    I see that thanks are due to Darryl for implementing a solution to this
    problem.
    Lets hope that fixes it once and for all.

    Regards

    David Bell

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