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List:       listar-support
Subject:    [LSupp] Spam nightmare
From:       "Nick Arnett" <narnett () mccmedia ! com>
Date:       2002-01-19 20:17:00
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My server began misbehaving this morning.  After a couple of hours of trying
to figure out why I had no disk space, I found that the Listar queue was
filled with tens of thousands of spam messages, nearly all from the same
domain (optinglobal.com and optinglobal.net), addressed to my lists.  I have
sent appropriate messages to the spammers, their registrar and their ISP.

Now I'm trying to figure out what the heck happened.  I get lots of spam
submitted to the lists I run.  I just ignore any administrative message that
contains them.  Do I have to tell Listar to reject every one of them?  That
would be a real pain.  I had assume that if I don't approve them, they
expire and go away.

Sorry if there's an answer available by RTFM, but I just spent three hours
finding and fixing.  There were so many files in the queue that rm * failed.
I had to delete a few thousand at a time, using wildcards, until I got so
frustrated that I found a work-around.

Unbelievable...

I would *really* like to be able to hook Razor, Spamassasin or something
like that into Listar to catch this crap as soon as it arrives.  They're
doing a great job on my personal mail.

I rebooted the machine a few minutes ago and I already see a dozen spams in
the queue.  Grrr!  They're still coming from optinglobal.com.  I'm really
mystified as to why they're sending the same dang spam over and over to the
same addresses.  Each copy shows that it was sent exactly a minute after the
previous one.

Time to block the domain, of course.  Done.

You know, I just realized that I have never gotten admin messages about
these, even though they are non-subscriber posts to lists that don't allow
such. What the heck?  I get those admin messages about other spammers
several times at day, at the least.

Nick Arnett
Phone/fax: 408-904-7198

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