On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (21/11/03 19:20), Mick Weiss wrote: > > > I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven > > > virus. > > > After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from > > > Microsoft. > > > > > > I talked to some people at the local linux user group and thats what they > > > told me. > > > > > > Anyone else have this problem? > > > > > > If this is indeed the case, and someone happens to be running windows --- > > > please use an anti-virus :o) pleeeeeez Any more mail and I will cringe. > > This has been an issue for some months and if you could check the > > archive (which appears to be down still) you would see copious posts on > > the problem and various ways of dealing with it. > > > > It appears that the debian lists are being harvested for addresses and > > if you post to any of them, you are a target. > > The reason for this is simple: any and all posts to Debian mailing lists are > available in the open. Reports sent to the BTS are also posted in raw form. > This makes it WAY too easy for people's e-mail addresses to be harvested! > > IMHO, Debian Project leaders ought to be wisen up on the basics of network > security and spam prevention. > > > FWIW I use mailfilter in conjunction with fetchmail to remove most of > > the swen stuff before download. Attached is a copy of my mailfilterrc. > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, not by > each and every mailing list subscriber. Good idea. A number of solutions were discussed on debian-user but I can't recall anyone suggesting this. Perhaps a note to the list meister would be in order?
Regards Clive > > -- > Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant > http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/ Funky website;) -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business
