[mythtv-users] Is MythTV an open forwarder? (was Re: OT: Spam?]

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jul 30 22:17:00 UTC 2008


On 07/30/2008 10:30 AM, Peter VanDerWal wrote:
>>> If anyone can post to the list without signing up, this is a bad thing
>>> and
>>> can lead to more spam. I suspect this is the case, since most spammers
>>> are
>>> too lazy to keep signing up.
>> Though I'm pretty certain that anyone can send an e-mail with an
>> appropriate From: header (i.e. one that uses the e-mail of a subscribed
>> member) .
> Well, the message in question came "From:" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> If that's all it takes to get spam onto the list...
>>> If it's an open list, then I'll probably quit.  My spam filters catch
>>> 99.9% of spam, but won't catch any coming in from MythTv.org
>> Fortunately, the mythtv.org spam filters catch 99.9999% of spam to the
>> list.  I'm thinking Isaac mentioned getting some 100 spam messages to
>> the list every 5 minutes or so (at least for a while).
> Well, hopefully someone hasn't found a simple way to get past the filters.
>
> I don't mind getting one spam every month or so, but when you have to
> start sorting through the crap to get the content, it's not worth it any
> more.

It was one e-mail.  I think if a spammer found the magic bullet, you'd 
never find this e-mail in all the junk that would be coming through.

Mike


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