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Re: ADMIN: spamming

I get a message saying any message I've sent was rejected for whatever
reason.  My email sometimes goes out as kasandra@cris.com and sometimes as
kasandra@concentric.net at my IP's whim.  On lists where only one email
address is allowed per real name and where only members can post I get about
a fifty percent reject rate and I also get a message saying the message
wasn't posted.  If the list is important to me I try reposting a few times.
Otherwise I usually just drop from the list.  

Anyway, the point of my response is that the poster may or may not be a
member of the list depending on whether he/she/it got a reject notice.  
At 11:35 AM 6/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I have good news and bad news about spamming and these email lists.
>The good news is that our recent changes to the perennials configuration 
>(only allowing postings from known addresses of subscribers) have kept
>out one spamming message.
>
>The bad news is that the woodyplants list was not set up this way -- I 
>wanted to run the perennials list this way for a few weeks to make
>sure.  So to those of you on the woodyplants list, I apologize for the
>spammed message that you got, and I will institute the new anti-spam
>changes.
>
>The spammer in question has been disallowed access to our mail servers.
>
>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?
>
>Chris
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Shelley
USDA Zone 6A 
Sunset Zone 39
Detroit

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