Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:04:59PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> >
> > Ron Johnson kindly sent me a Python script that deleted all the
> > large files from the server. All right, I had seen these messages
> > piling up and guessed, from the length, that they were all swen,
> > although it is theoretically possible that I deleted something that
> > was not swen.
> >
> Ron's script which he sent to me also is a good one and works fast. But
> if there are legitmate large messages, then they too are deleted.
Oh yes. I understand the risk.
>
> Currently I use swendeleter which is a perl script. It works in both
> interactive and non-interactive mode. Search for it on freshmeat/google.
Oof! Kind people on the list have given me enough to try out for
the moment. Thanks anyway.
And is it only my ISPs getting their acts together or is the flow
of swens starting to dry up?
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -Sacher M.
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