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Re: [OM] ........not again.......

Subject: Re: [OM] ........not again.......
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 09:50:33 +0000
Careful with this advice! Know what you're doing with mail headers if you do this so that you get the source correct. A number of them have come through the list which will contain the IP's of the email servers associated with distributing the OM list too! Also, the originating machines are infected with the worm. Their owners do not know they're sending this suff.

Apparently the OM list server is truncating the file attachments to 0k (completely empty; nothing there) which is a Good Thing. (Applicable to only the stuff coming through the list.) I don't believe MajorDomo, the email list software running the OM list is capable of blocking a single "subject" or "from" address in the headers.

At 10:03 3/4/01, you wrote:
Two easy steps:

        1) Fire off a complaint to abuse@ and postmaster@ any and all
           domains in the msg. header and their immediate upstreams
           (traceroute is your friend here)

        2) a suitable filter in your .procmailrc (or whatever your
           mail-system supports) and you will never see such mails again.

The somewhat harder step:

        Convince your local BOFH to subscribe to the Real Time Blackhole
        (or other such mechanism) and thus filter out mail from spamming,
        spam-friendly and open mail relays.

--thomas

(who's getting SO off-topic here, but hotel-rooms are booring on sundays)


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