[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]]]

[William Snow]

we can't.

we could maybe integrate spam assassin or something like it...

--w


Derek Cicero wrote:

> William Snow wrote:
>
>> I'm not the mailman admin for the lists on that site or I'd do those 
>> things in a heartbeat.
>> It takes about 1 minute to implement, but I don'thave the password.
>
>
> OK, I looked into this and we have two issues here.
>
> The first issue is that SPAM got onto the mailing list itself, after 
> it was accidentally approved by the moderator. This was a user error 
> which has been corrected.
>
> The second issue is figuring out how we can cut down on the actual 
> SPAM that is being caught by the moderation process. It's really 
> spiked in the last three weeks, so any improvement would be welcomed. 
> We use Brightmail for SPAM filtering, yes? How do we add our servers 
> to the Brightmail filtering process?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
>>
>> --w
>>
>>
>> Karyn Ritter wrote:
>>
>>> Will,
>>>
>>> Is there someone on your team that can help with this on mailman 
>>> side? Allen says he isn't an expert...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Karyn
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]]
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:44:00 -0700
>>> From: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
>>> To: Bret Madhvani <bmadhvani at altastrada.com>
>>> CC: Karyn.Ritter at Sun.COM, Allen Gilliland <allen.gilliland at sun.com>, 
>>> Derek Cicero <derek.cicero at sun.com>
>>> References: <432211AF.2040302 at sun.com> 
>>> <4325CAAE.5030709 at altastrada.com>
>>>
>>> Hi, Bret ... I just got another message on spam and viruses. Who should
>>> we take this to?
>>>
>>> Thansk ... Jim
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [osol-mktg] Please do something about the virus
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:04:01 +0200
>>> From: Laurent Blume <laurent at elanor.org>
>>> To: opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>
>>> I just got 7 infected emails from that list, and coming from a Sun
>>> internal machine:
>>>
>>> Received: from tonic1.sun.com (unknown [10.10.10.4])
>>>
>>> Can you please, at the very least, disable file attachments?
>>> And allowing posting only from subscribed addresses wouldn't hurt, 
>>> either.
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> opensolaris-mktg mailing list
>>> opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>
>>>
>>> ******
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bret Madhvani wrote:
>>>
>>>> Karyn,
>>>>
>>>> Jive Forums can be configured to scan messages for viruses - it 
>>>> uses an external tool to perform the scans. Mailman doesn't have 
>>>> any specific virus-scanning features; it assumes that this is being 
>>>> handled at the MTA level, before the message gets to Mailman.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how the production machines are configured, so I can't 
>>>> say if virus scanning is being performed now. I believe only Derek 
>>>> and Allen can answer that question.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bret
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Karyn Ritter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bret & Allen,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to look into this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Karyn
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam]
>>>>> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:30:55 -0700
>>>>> From: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
>>>>> To: Karyn Ritter <Karyn.Ritter at Sun.COM>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we have access to Derek's technical people to check this? The
>>>>> consultants, I mean.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: [osol-mktg] Virus and spam
>>>>> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:21:55 +0200
>>>>> From: Laurent Blume <laurent at elanor.org>
>>>>> To: opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it considered a feature that this mailing list is a propagating
>>>>> vector not
>>>>> only for spam, but for virus as well, both in email and web forms?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2213&tstart=0
>>>>>
>>>>> /export/home/space/tmp/Important.zip->Important.txt
>>>>>                                       Infection: W32/Netsky.Z at mm
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not the kind of "viral" marketing the Community is expecting for
>>>>> OpenSolaris, I'm sure :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>
>

-- 
--will snow
will.snow at Eng.Sun.COM
Sr. Director, Web Platform Engineering
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://blogs.sun.com/was

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