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Re: Spamming by/to list....



Idiot what are U trying to say. If U have the skills
try to use it in a constructive way but not in a
distructive way.

Once again! No more mails to my ID. 
--- Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have two suggestions.
> 
> 1. Regarding the complaint of the vamsi5@xxxxxxxxx
> user(?)
>
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> If this is going to be the case, we can think of
> forcing to enter personal
> details before subscribing to the list. Maybe the
> chennailug.org site can
> have a link to subscribe to the list which will
> initiate a form (cgi/java)
> and after submitting it (with non-blank entries)
> only, a mail is generated
> to the aero server listar to enroll as a subscriber.
> (All direct email
> subsriptions will have to be disabled). Such a
> script can even trap the IP
> address of the client machine from which the browser
> referred to the website. 
> 
> Another way is to have an autoresponse mail sent to
> the person requesting
> for subscription and ask to reply to that, just to
> verify/confirm. Lot of
> mailing lists have this restriction to ensure that
> no impersonation is
> done.
> 
> In case of a dispute the info from one of the above
> can be referred to. 
> 
> Although this will need some tweaking in
> sendmail/listar, it is worth the
> effort I feel.
> 
> It appears that, if the user in question has not
> subscribed himself, maybe
> that somebody has misused his username/password. In
> such a case, the
> arrangement as I said above would be useful.
> 
> 2. Spamming(?) by janust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---------------------------------------------
> Why cant we have a restriction in listar that only
> subscribers can post?
> Majordomo allows this. We dont expect mails from all
> and sundry. Also, a
> careful look at the headers of the 4 mails show that
> all of them are from
> Windows machines over a dialup connection with the
> 1st two and the other
> two from different IP addresses. That means the last
> two were sent after
> losing connection and reconnecting....
> 
> In any case, we need to take steps to stop these
> nuisance(s) at the
> earliest, as someone correctly pointed out, this
> involves 100+ users and
> most of them are either busy to read all these junk
> mails or are using low
> bandwidth connections.
> 
> -
> Oommen.
> 
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Dr. P. Sriram wrote:
> 
> sriram> dear chennailuggies,
> sriram> 
> sriram> (trying to follow up on pasokan's post);
> system logs show that some 65
> sriram> messages have been delivered to ilugc
> recipients (including
> sriram> vamsi5@xxxxxxxxx) since october 14th. from
> october 24th, this user seems
> sriram> to be taking exception to receiving the
> mails. system logs dont reveal
> sriram> since when vamsi5 is subscribed to the list.
> it is interesting to note
> sriram> that postings to the list received upto
> october 24th have not been
> sriram> objected to. it is most interesting to note
> that vamsi5's objections
> sriram> (Hello Mr, Will U please stop sending mails
> to me) are posted to the list
> sriram> - meaning all recipients (including vamsi5)
> get it! perhaps, vamsi5@yahoo
> sriram> can throw some light on the matter....
> sriram> 
> sriram> sriram
> sriram> 
> sriram> 
> 
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> 
> 


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