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Re: ADMIN: spamming

> There is more bad news, however.  It seems that the spammer is probably
> a subscriber to these lists.  Interestingly enough, they sent the message
> once at 5:30 to perennials AND woodyplants.  The message went out to
> woodyplants, but bounced when sent to perennials.  Then the message
> was resent at 6:30 to perennials, then at 8:30.  At that point I turned
> off access from the offending email address.  How would this individual
> know to send the message again to perennials, but not to woodyplants
> unless they were a subscriber?

Do you allow mail from non-subscribers to reach the list?  If a post 
"bounced" without you changing the access, then I would assume you have
elected not to allow posts to non-subscribers.  Therefore, I would not
think s/he is on the perennials mailing list.

However, do you enforce this on woodyplants?  If the person was a
non-subscriber, s/he would still know the message went through if it did
not bounce, or if s/he requested notification of delivery (some arcane
option to sendmail somewhere).  If you enforce the policy of no
non-subscriber posts to woodyplants, then you can be sure that that
person was subscribed (or *spoofed* a subscriber) at the time of the
spam.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
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