Re: Getting things done

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 06:45, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

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>  3. Any comments/thoughts on Spam ?  We fixed one problem yet the open
> relay issue is still there (meaning, any list member can be spoofed/forged
> as recently happened to me).  Should we not accept any mails from open
> relays (ie. institute RBL).

Not sure that blocking open relays will prevent cases like the recent one. ie: 
someone can spoof your email using his ISP's SMTP server (which is not an 
open relay) and it seems that's what happened :-)

However, if we can block open relays it would be great. It may prevent the 
lists from receiving automatically viruses and worms from those relays on 
behalf of a subscriber (which may cause some disasters for those who think 
the email comes from a friend).

For example, I recently received a virus from biku ;-)) [but that one was sent 
directly to me and not via a mailing list]. If I was using Wintoz and I 
believed it was really sent by biku it may have caused a disaster...

Another example, I am subscribed to Mandrake's i18n mailing list. We recently 
received a virus 'on behalf' of Pablo* :-) Someone on the list said that now 
viruses are using AI...

So this is a common problem and happens even to those more experienced than 
us. But if we can fix it it would be great.

(*) The coordinator of Mandrake's i18n. 

Salam,

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Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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