Re: About SPAM..

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Yes, Bart, this is giving me fits, too. But as I understand it, the prob 
is neither with the deb list nor with your own configurations. The 
problem is that folks who use the deb list & who alse use Microsoft 
Virus Assistance software have gotten infected; and as a result their 
systems are firing off these bogus email adviseries to everyone on their 
mailing lists--i.e., us. It's frustrating that we Linux users are almost 
virus free because of the OS we've chosen, but because of the way this 
sven virus was designed, we're still getting abused because of 
deficiencies in MS systems.

Like you, I keep putting filters in place to deal with individual 
messages, but that's a losing battle. At some point I'm going to have to 
do something about the prob at a deeper level. Clive Menzies posted a 
solution that seems promising: See his post of 11/26/03 "Re: debianppc 
list and sven virus" in the archives for more details.

Good luck!    --Harvey



Bart Koppe wrote:

> Since i joined the debian-powerpc-lis i get at least 10-15 spam 
> messages a day :(
> All microsoft-sjit or e-mails with only one attachement.
> Pretty annoying because i menaged to be almost spam-free for 6 years 
> by now..
> grr..
> Anybody have this problems to?
> Can we do something against it (besides on my own machine of course)?
>
> Don't get me wrong, i joy to be on the list, but this spam is less 
> nice :(
>
> Thankz
> Bart