At 05:07 PM 3/9/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
I have been spam free for the past 6 months. Now all of a sudden I get regular
spam by apparently a subscriber this list linux-newbie.
"apparently"? What does that mean? I hope you are not replying on the From: line to infer the source, since From: headers are routingely spoofed in SPAM. The only way (that I know of) to figure out the actual source of a piece of SPAM is to review the Received: headers ... and since they too can be spoofed, to a degree, even a review of them requires some care.
Is it only me since I see no one else is complaining?
I am impressed that you are "spam free". I'm not close to that. I do succeed in filtering out most of my SPAM, though, so I could be getting the same messages you are and not notice ... especially since you have identified them so vaguely. I see mail from this list, in my summary lists of messages, as coming from the sender, not the list, so I would not easily spot any SPAM actually coming through the list.
Can it be stopped at the source that is at linux-newbie?
Earlier, you said the source was a linux-newbie subscriber. Here you seem to say it is the list itself. Which is it? And how do you know?
If it is coming through the list ... well, the usual solution to this is to filter messages at the list level. (Making the list subscribers only is another control, though an imperfect one ... but probably not the right approach for a beginners list.) Unfortunately, the list maintainer, whoever he or she is, seems to pay no attention to the list, so I doubt anything will get done unless the same problem occurs on an "important" vger list -- like linux-kernel -- in which case we will be side beneficiaries of whatever tightening gets done there ... even that part is just a guess, though.
If you want to attempt to get the list owner's attention, the standard way to do that ... at least for majordomo-based lists, and I believe linux-newbie still is ... is to send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
What information is needed?
Post a followup with a COMPLETE set of Received: headers quoted, as well as whatever information you are using to make your judgments about the source of the message, along with an explanation of how you are reading the message to infer its source.
The spam comes with hostname constantly changing in the Message-Id:, however, not the ISP itself.
I don't know what you mean by this part. You may need to provide information from more than one message to clarify it.
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