Subject: Re: How did we get spammed?
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 12:06:39 CST
According to Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>:
>
> > How did we get spammed?
> > I thought abiword was a closed list?
>
> I would like to know that too, especially since this a second
> message from the same source in a few weeks. I suspect that the
> mail list server is set up in such a way that addresses originating
> on abisource.com do not require subscription in order to post to the
> list, and the spam pretends to originate on abisource.com, even
> though it comes from 203.177.64.138, which is in the Philipines!!!
Just to close the debate, adresses from @abisource.com don't get thru the
list either. I checked that myself.
On the other side, filtering HTML is a good way to reduce spam.... :=-)
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Hub
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