Dear Samba and Linux list users - Several people have commented on the volume of spam reaching the list. Andrew (the list maintainer, I am but a lowly assistant) has been advised of your comments and will take action if he thinks it's necessary. People wishing to make further comment should do so directly to the list admins and NOT, repeat NOT to the list itself! My thanks to those list members who advised us directly, The Samba and Linux lists are (respectively) for the discussion of Samba and Linux ONLY. Discussion of spam and responses to spam are OFF-TOPIC. Regards, K. ______________________________________________________________________________ Karl Auer Network Services Karl.Auer@anu.edu.au IT Services +61-6-2494627 (bh) Australian National University +61-6-2798199 (fax) Canberra, ACT 0200
Gentlemen: We have never asked to be included in your samba mailing list- we don't know who included us. The fact is that we are receiving hundreds of e-mail per week - on this date(november 23) there are more than 1,500 messages to be downloaded which accummulated over the last 10 days or so. Kindly eliminate our address from you mailing list immedeiately. As you cna imagine, this situation is of great nuisance to us because we have no interest whatsoever in SAMBA - but are daily invaded with messages. Please advise by return that you have received this message and that you will be taking action. Thank you in advance for your kind attention. Preparing For Careers
Hello, I singed up for the samba@lists.samba.org using a one-time email address (jf-samba@stan.mit.edu) and now I get virus laden spam messages at that address about every ninety seconds -- thanks. Perhaps you could run your email lists more responsibly in the future. Joe Frisbie
On 14 Oct 2003, "J. Frisbie" <frisbie@MIT.EDU> wrote:> Hello, > > I singed up for the samba@lists.samba.org using a one-time > email address (jf-samba@stan.mit.edu) and now I get virus > laden spam messages at that address about every ninety seconds > -- thanks.This kind of complaint is explicitly off topic for the list: http://samba.org/samba/ml-etiquette.html It is also not a security bug.> Perhaps you could run your email lists more responsibly in > the future.That tone is not helpful. What would you like us to do differently? -- mbp
(Paring the CC list a bit.)> -----Original Message----- > From: J. Frisbie [mailto:frisbie@MIT.EDU]> Do not send messages to the list with machine parseable > return addresess. > Make the reply to address the mailing list, not the person > who sent the message.This is a bad idea. See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Morris [mailto:Jim@Morris-World.com]> I have to agree with the others on the need for the mailing > list to do something.I suspect the main culprit is the USENET gateway. Any post to USENET with a valid email address seems to immediately attract lots of virus traffic. Maybe it's time to eliminate the USENET gateway. If USENET wasn't dead before, it effectively is now, since posting to it results in an almost immediate mailbox DoS.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Simard [mailto:ray.simard@sylvan-glade.com]> The most effective step to reduce this is to restrict posting to > subscribed list members.I don't think this will help much, though it may be a good idea for other reasons. I've never seen a virus arrive *through* the list. I think what people are complaining about is viruses being sent to them directly.