Spam and SmartList (Was: Re:Adult Passwords)

13 Jul 2002


      At 9:52 AM -0400 7/13/02, smartlist@informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE is rumored to
have typed:
...
<html><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
[Netscape]">
   <title>        Free porn passes to all the top sites
    </title>
Hum...interesting (but not terribly surprising) that Mailman can be fooled
by something so embarassingly simple. SmartList wouldn't be (assuming
foreign_submit is unset, which is the only way to run a list nowadays), since
the list name wouldn't be within the dist file. (If one sets up a digest the
"normal" way, subscribing the digest to the interactive, it might get
distributed to a digested list, however.)

         Charlie

Charlie Summers

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