From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Johnson, Richard" <rjohnson@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Horiffic SPAM
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:36:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923183648.GE1269@velociraptor.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309231408260.28457@quark.analogic.com>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:11:59PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I took root@chaos.analogic.com off the linux-kernel list
> for a few days so I can trap the spammers and write their
> addresses to `ipchains`. I have been getting approximately
> 12,000 email messages per day on that system, making it
> impossible to use. It's all about the servers spreading
> the M$ email virus with the phony message to update to the
the baesyan algorithm learnt about them pretty quickly, so they don't
hurt me anymore (besides some wasted bandwidth).
I doubt answerning those messages will do any good besides generating
more traffic, but I don't know the detail of the virus so I could be
wrong.
Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/
svn://svn.kernel.org/linux-2.[46]/trunk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 18:11 Horiffic SPAM Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-23 18:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2003-09-23 18:53 ` Matt Heler
2003-09-23 19:06 ` offtopic (Re: Horiffic SPAM) Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24 3:15 ` Sandy Harris
2003-09-24 6:28 ` Horiffic SPAM Paul Dickson
2003-09-24 14:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-25 8:21 ` [OT] " Helge Hafting
2003-09-25 12:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-25 14:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-25 15:36 ` Toshiba Tecra S1 Battery Status Bernt Hansen
2003-09-23 18:43 ` [OT] Re: Horiffic SPAM Grant Miner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-24 15:08 John Bradford
2003-09-24 16:21 ` David Lang
2003-09-24 16:35 ` Wakko Warner
2003-09-24 16:45 John Bradford
2003-09-24 17:22 ` David Lang
2003-09-24 17:40 ` James Stevenson
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