[Comphelp] Mailman maillist vs. virus problems

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:30:42 -0600

 Ditto with the D21 list.  My guess is that someone found that usps.org
had a mail server and is using a brute force name generator to hit the
lists.  It wouldn't take but a second to generate a three or four letter
name like D21.  I might suggest that we be allowed to change the names
of the lists to longer names with special characters.  The DEO list I
also run gets very few spams.  It has the name "deo-l".

Roger Penneman
Fort Worth

-----Original Message-----
From: comphelp-admin@usps.org [mailto:comphelp-admin@usps.org] On Behalf
Of Robert Miller
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 11:04 PM
To: 'Dave Schuppert'; comphelp@usps.org
Subject: RE: [Comphelp] Mailman maillist vs. virus problems

I have the problem in spades. With four different squadron Mailman lists
I
get anywhere from 5 to 30 per day on each individual lists. There should
be
a way to just reject anything from non list members on receipt so the
administrator didn't clear them every day. Unfortunately I have found no
way
to accomplish that and it's getting to be a real pain.

Bob Miller
Poverty Bay
D16ve-l
Vsc-l
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-----Original Message-----
From: comphelp-admin@usps.org [mailto:comphelp-admin@usps.org] On Behalf
Of
Dave Schuppert
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:34 PM
To: comphelp@usps.org
Subject: [Comphelp] Mailman maillist vs. virus problems

I have just set up several maillist using ver 2.1.5 of the Mailman
maillist 
program.
These are all on a private server but service D20.

Since setting up the list I am receiving 10+ virus files a day. The
From: 
indicates that they are coming in from members mail servers. Generally
it 
is the MyDoom or Sober virus. Yahoo mail detects them, but .... I am 
wondering what gives. Does anyone else have this problem?

Second issue: I have blocked all attachments. However,  .txt and 
.pif   still get thru.
For some reason these two attachments appear to defy blocking and they
are 
the major virus carriers.
Does anyone have a suggestion?

thanks

Lt/C David W. Schuppert, SN
United States Power Squadrons
District 20
District Electronic Information Officer (DEIO)

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