Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-03 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 18:51 +0200, Ulf Rasch wrote: > > Marco Colombo wrote: > [snip] > > Interesting theories. But they seem to backfire on you, since, according > > to Mr. Jeffrey T Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this list _is_ closed: > > "The list is not now, nor ever has been, open-posting. Posti

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread deadendaddress
From the descriptions posted here, all you need to do is use a random string of characters ending in cmu.edu from any ip address on the internet. On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ulf Rasch wrote: Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:51:22 +0200 From: Ulf Rasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.ed

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Etienne Goyer
Marco Colombo wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 09:42 -0400, Etienne Goyer wrote: What you are saying is technically correct. But there is a caveat. I am subscribed to about two dozens list (more ? I lost count), and the only one I am getting spam from is info-cyrus. It's also the only one that

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Ulf Rasch
Marco Colombo wrote: [snip] Interesting theories. But they seem to backfire on you, since, according to Mr. Jeffrey T Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this list _is_ closed: "The list is not now, nor ever has been, open-posting. Posting is restricted to subscribers, or to those users local to cmu.ed

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Jules Agee
Jeffrey T Eaton wrote: > Here is the somewhat "official" answer on the state of the mailing > list: Thanks for your informative response. Others had posted that this was an open list, and I assumed that was the case. As I said in my earlier post, I don't expect it to be perfect. I was just under t

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 09:42 -0400, Etienne Goyer wrote: > Marco Colombo wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:46 -0700, Jules Agee wrote: > >>Seconded. > >>info-cyrus is the only list I'm subscribed to that allows posting by > >>non-subscribers. Maybe it's not a coincidence that it's also the only >

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Etienne Goyer
Marco Colombo wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:46 -0700, Jules Agee wrote: Seconded. info-cyrus is the only list I'm subscribed to that allows posting by non-subscribers. Maybe it's not a coincidence that it's also the only list that I get spam & viruses from on a regular basis. This makes no s

RE: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:22 -0400, Kern, Tom wrote: > I'm subscribed to the postfix and spamassassin mailing lists and they are > closed. > I think those 2 lists have a lot to do with email. > > This is the only list i'm on that got hit by that german spam bot.. Not true. postfix-users was put

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-06-01 Thread Marco Colombo
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:46 -0700, Jules Agee wrote: > Kern, Tom wrote: > > I'm subscribed to the postfix and spamassassin mailing lists and they are > > closed. > > I think those 2 lists have a lot to do with email. > > > > This is the only list i'm on that got hit by that german spam bot.. > >

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-05-31 Thread Jeffrey T Eaton
Here is the somewhat "official" answer on the state of the mailing list: 1. The list is not now, nor ever has been, open-posting. Posting is restricted to subscribers, or to those users local to cmu.edu. The spam posts that make it through the to the list do so because they are sent with forge

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-05-31 Thread Jules Agee
Kern, Tom wrote: > I'm subscribed to the postfix and spamassassin mailing lists and they are > closed. > I think those 2 lists have a lot to do with email. > > This is the only list i'm on that got hit by that german spam bot.. > > maybe you shouldn't discount every option to filter spam as "not

RE: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

2005-05-31 Thread Kern, Tom
I'm subscribed to the postfix and spamassassin mailing lists and they are closed. I think those 2 lists have a lot to do with email. This is the only list i'm on that got hit by that german spam bot.. maybe you shouldn't discount every option to filter spam as "not worth the effort" or "they ca