If it were THAT simple, John would have already done that.

So how does one go about filtering random mail from everywhere and with
random subjects, etc....think about it and tell us your simple
solution....you could GET RICH QUICK with that solution.

-----Original Message-----
Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 12:45 AM
Subject: [M]: RE: RE: RE: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news


>Deal with it. It's not difficult.
>
>Install your own filters if you have to.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Mark Buettemeier
>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:57 PM
>Subject: [M]: RE: RE: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news
>
>
>NO THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>I ALREADY GET ENOUGH SPAM MAIL AND DON'T WANT TO WEAR OUT MY DELETE KEY ANY
>FASTER THAN IT IS ALREADY!
>
>> ----------
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 8:41 PM
>> Subject: [M]: RE: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news
>>
>> Why not just let them through and leave it up to the end users to delete
>> them. It really is our responsibility, not yours, to deal with the spam
>> that hits our mailboxes.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> JohnLX200
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:13 PM
>> Subject: [M]: MAPUG admin: good news / bad news
>>
>>
>> Some good news and some bad news:
>>
>> First, the good news: Thank you all for the civil tone on the list
lately.
>> You are even forgiven for the excessive OT banter in exchange for the
good
>> behavior.
>>
>> Next, the bad news:
>>
>> Apparently mapug has found its way onto a serious SPAM mailing list.
It's
>> currently at a workable volume, but is rapidly accelerating, making me
>> suspect
>> that we've made it onto some list of "57 million email addresses for $99"
>> and
>> is being spread around. I don't believe it is a deliberate attack upon
>> the
>> list, just the usual get-rich-quick emails, porno website promotion, etc.
>>
>> I'd use the Majordomo list server's capabilities to block it, if from
>> predictable addresses, but it's coming in from reasonable-looking
>> addresses,
>> mostly but not all on AOL, and there are way too many MAPUG members on
AOL
>> for
>> me to just block email from AOL anyway. Not to mention that it would
>> block
>> ME
>> ;-)
>>
>> Luckily, it all bounces to my shore.net account without hitting the
list,
>> so
>> you don't get to read all these creative pitches like I do. I'm
concerned
>> that the number of bounced SPAM emails is approximately tripling with
each
>> wave of junk every 12-24 hours, so the trend is "going parabolic" on us.
>>
>> If anyone knows of a good method to deal with it (beyond forwarding them
>> to
>> the abuse department at each ISP, which is a losing battle in this case
>> where
>> multiple new sources keep springing up) please privately email me.
>>
>> As it could be serious enough to bring my shore.net account (and
therefore
>> MAPUG) down, I've taken the precaution of saving all your email addresses
>> as
>> currently subscribed to mapug and mapug-digest so that, worst case, I
>> could
>> change the name of the list and subscribe all of you to the new list.
>> Perhaps
>> shore.net could rename the list without unsubscribing/subscribing
>> everyone,
>> but I haven't checked that out yet.
>>
>> I don't know that anything this drastic will be necessary, but wanted to
>> give
>> you all advance notice just in case the list comes down for a few days.
>> This
>> is by far the most ominous series of SPAM attacks we've had so far, but
>> don't
>> worry, I'll be able to deal with it one way or another.
>>
>> On a separate note, newsgroups will have vastly more SPAM starting on
>> April
>> 3,
>> due to a boycott by SPAM-canceling administrators who are feeling that
>> more
>> of
>> the burden should be taken on by ISPs. The boycott has no effect upon
>> MAPUG,
>> but those of you following s.a.a. may soon be looking back on "the good
>> old
>> days" for a while too.
>>
>> John Hopper
>> MAPUG administrator
>>
>

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