samba - Oct 2003 - Re: [OT]SPAM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tvsjr [mailto:tvsjr@sprynet.com]
> As a consultant, I can not afford to have 
> customer email ending up in the trash because the server 
> thought it was spam.
I think this is the risk you take if you use a vital email address to post
to public forums.  I would suggest using seperate addresses for these
functions.  Besides, if you don't have the ability to filter mail, just the
sheer daily volume of *legitimate* mail on this list is going to be a
problem.
> Furthermore, I'm subscribed to 20+ mailing lists on this 
> account (from 
> various services, including private lists, Yahoo Groups, 
> etc.) The spam 
> count was about 10 per day until I subscribed to the Samba 
> list. Now it's 
> over 200. Argue as much as you like, but no one else seems to 
> have this 
> problem.
Including me -- I've been subscribed to the Samba list for years and I
don't
get unmanagable numbers of viruses.

I've also seen bursts of virus traffic for no apparent reason.  It could be
a coincidence.  Correlation != causation.

There's also always the question of what your ISP is doing.  My
ameritech.net account gets vast quantities of spam, and started getting it
before I even used it!  I can only assume Ameritech is selling their email
list.

On 15 Oct 2003, David Brodbeck <DavidB@mail.interclean.com> wrote:
> I've also seen bursts of virus traffic for no apparent reason.  It
could be
> a coincidence.  Correlation != causation.
> 
> There's also always the question of what your ISP is doing.  My
> ameritech.net account gets vast quantities of spam, and started getting it
> before I even used it!  I can only assume Ameritech is selling their email
> list.
Some spammer might have guessed "david" + "b" from a
dictionary
attack.  (Assuming that's your account name, I don't know.)  Or maybe
Ameritech are selling their list.  As you say, it is hard to determine
exact causes when you're looking at the actions of unknown malicious
agents.

--
Martin