Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:11:40 -0800 

> A few months ago someone suggested that all binary attachments should be
> stripped from freebsd-hackers mail. I believe it is still a very good idea,
> and patches tend to be posted as text anyway.

Good Idea.

We should'nt filter out all mail with MIME enclosures, as occasionally MIME 
enclosures are validly used on FreeBSD lists, But to list a few WIBNIs:
(WIBNI = Woundn't It Be Nice If )

We could bounce/kill all postings containing MIME with .exe spam.
 (We have uuencode in the rare event we need to broadcast a binary.)

We could bounce/kill postings containing MIME with .doc enclosures, stopping:
 more spam & EG non Unix oriented people dumping .doc resumes on jobs@freebsd.
 OK, it would also reject .doc format job adverts, some may not like that,
 but if a company is so uncaring/incompetent they can't even reformat a
 bounced .doc in ascii or some public format, I'm not interested.

We could also bounce/kill postings containing 
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=big5
& other non latin fonts, as we all use latin fonts on freebsd lists,
it being the only one we all understand.  Sure some people set 
        charset=big5
by mistake (& then send ascii anyway), & they are discussing real FreeBSD
issues, but it'd cut spam from non latin charset originators.

We could also bounce/kill postings containing possibly auto-load HREFs ?
(Do they exist as such ? I got one direct, not from a BSD list, 
looks rather innocuous initially, starting:
] -----
] MIME-Version: 1.0
] Content-Type: text/html; charset=big5
] Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
] 
] PCFET0NUWVBFIEhUTUwgUFVCTElDICItLy9XM0MvL0RURCBIVE1MIDQuMCBUcmFuc2l0aW9u
] YWwvL0VOIj4NCjxIVE1MPjxIRUFEPjxUSVRMRT6rT67JsbazbsXppUCsyTwvVElUTEU+DQo8
] TUVUQSBjb250ZW50PSJ0ZXh0L2h0bWw7IGNoYXJzZXQ9YmlnNSIgaHR0cC1lcXVpdj1Db250
] ZW50LVR5cGU+DQo8TUVUQSBjb250ZW50PSJNU0hUTUwgNS4wMC4yNjE0LjM1MDAiIG5hbWU9
] R0VORVJBVE9SPjwvSEVBRD4NCjxCT0RZIGJnQ29sb3I9I2ZmZmZmZiBsZWZ0TWFyZ2luPTAg
] dG9wTWFyZ2luPTA+DQo8VEFCTEUgYm9yZGVyPTAgY2VsbFBhZGRpbmc9MCBjZWxsU3BhY2lu
] ----
But EXMH hangs seemingly waits for my gateway, & can also can show it as:
] --------
] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
] <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>???????</TITLE>
] <META content="text/html; charset=big5" http-equiv=Content-Type>
] <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
] <BODY bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0>
] <TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%">
]   <TBODY>
]   <TR>
]     <TD bgColor=#c40000 width="100%"><BR><BR><BR></TD></TR>
]   <TR>
]     <TD bgColor=#ffffff width="100%"><BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
] <DIV align=center>
] <CENTER>
] <TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 height=80 width="67%">
]   <TBODY>
]   <TR>
]     <TD height=18 width="65%"><!--webbot bot="ImageMap" startspan
]     rectangle=" (6,6) (325, 169)  http://www.geocities.com/kino33us" 
]src="http://www.geocities.com/ad12223/maillogo.gif" width="326" height="170"
]     alt="http://www.geocities.com/ad12223/maillogo.gif (9955 ????)"
] ----------
(BTW It doesnt work, geocities says kino33us/por.css doesnt exist,
 though the spam is not old:
] Received: from unknown (HELO dns.swaintpe.com.tw) (202.39.37.101)
]   by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 28 Jan 2001 10:00:41 -0000
] Received: from 202.39.37.101 ([163.30.2.207]) by dns.swaintpe.com.tw (Lotus SMTP MTA 
]SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id 482569E2.0035B74C; Wed, 28 Jan 1970 17:46:55 
]+0800
)

Anyone who could give [EMAIL PROTECTED] filter mechanisms that
freebsd.org could integrate to reduce spam on lists, would be a minor hero :-)

Julian
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Julian Stacey     Unix Consultant - Munich Germany     http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/
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