Klaus Muth wrote: > > financial@lycosmail.com wrote: [UCE censored] > Hu? How did this work? I thought, you had to subscribe if you want to send > in the mailing list. I think that policy was changed a few weeks ago to make the mailing list more accessible for normal users having trouble with netboot packages. The argument that convinced the mailing list admin was that SPAM (not to confuse with UCE) can be mostly caught by means such as ORBS. ORBS however cannot block UCE - in fact I believe blocking UCE is impossible with reasonable measures. Just as a side note: the subscription check cannot really block SPAM/UCE, because the spammer just needs to use the sender address of someone who is actually subscribed in the From: line. However I wouldn't take this as an advice on actually getting SPAM through on other lists - the misused address is easily spotted by the rightful owner, which might not take this very kindly. Many abusers have been mailbombed or worse for such behaviour. BTW: I complained to abuse@mediaways.net (the user came directly from an AOL dialin IP number, so that address should be the right one in this case). I hope that this is enough to close this UCE case. Back to more interesting topics. Klaus =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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