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This item is for system problems. If something on Grex isn't working right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.), this is the place to announce it. Except for security holes. If you find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".
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i've received a lot of spam today that appears to have come from the "pal" account.
Backtalk is down.
Backtalk appears to be back up, for the moment, that's how I'm getting here.
re #1: (I received a lot of spam today, period. it was certainly odd
to see so much directed at my Grex account; usually, at least
of late, it's been one or two at a time.)
The total amount of spam directed at grex seems to have gone *way* up this week. In a typical week (say, June 16-23), grex might reject something like 765 pieces of suspected spam. Since June 23, (ie, 2 days), grex has rejected 6578 pieces of suspected spam. As best I can tell, nearly all of the bounced mail really was spam. It looked like a rather large # of open relay hosts had been used, and delivery had been attempted to more than 2000 grex mail addresses. A number of different kinds of spammers may be involved. I don't have enough data to say whether this was directed against grex, or is just a smaller part of some larger spam deluge.
(ah. thanks for the info, Marcus.)
Yes, I've been getting spam this week in accounts that seldom have any at all (here on Grex).
i've been bombarded the past few days as well at my panix account. :(
Oddly, I've seen a big drop-off in spam at work for no reason I can figure out.
I got none. lol
resp:9. Spam seems to come and go, like the tides. Today, as you note, has been relatively spamless.
I had an inordinate amount of spam also, which I forwarded to uce. I would propose that the federal death penalty be extended to spamming. We'd be sure to clean out some of the sleazier elements of society. ;-)
I've never gotten any spam on grex. But I got 20 more than usual on my MSU account today.
I receive almost nothing BUT spam on my grex account, so I've changed my .forward to uce and am using my upstageleft.net addresses instead.
did you give out your email address on grex?
(it's been a long time since I've given out my Grex address for anything, but I figure spam will be one of the disadvantages of being at the top of the password file.) ;)
from hubbie: "i just got some spam relayed through the Defense Intelligence Agency in Wash DC .. http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=11.64.149.229&server=magic good job we (sic) are not fighting a war against spam ;) "
It's been a long while since I've given out my Grex address for anything, but it is still on my inactive (yet still present) angelfire.com account, and it appears on a lot of publicly accessible (and spiderable) Grex webpages due to my boardmembership.
just passing this along from the panix mod:
":Notice to users running Unix at home (elr) Thu Jun 27 21:09:40 2002
Panix customers who run home versions of Unix should pay close attention
to these recent security advisories:
OpenSSH remote root compromise:
http://www.openssh.org/txt/iss.adv
BSD-based operating system resolver client buffer overflow:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539
Apache chunking remote vulnerability:
http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020620.txt
The resolver client buffer overflow is particularly scary, since it
could theoretically be exploited through a firewall or on a machine
that is not running any server programs.
"
I dunno. If I wanted to send mail to Eric, I'd probably send it to other@grex.org even though he has never told me to use that addresss.
Well, please send it to upstageleft.net instead. Any address there will do.
to help prevent spam do not use your grex account to sign up for things on the internet. get a yahoo or hotmail account to sign up for these things. these accounts are always targets of spam anyways!!!.
Hmm. So to reduce the spam I get I should open another account where I'll get even more spam?
You might get *different* spam..... 8^}
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I never ever get spam at my yahoo account or at my ISP, but plenty at grex. I posted my grex address at my website and get lots of 'small business' spam as well as the usual porno and mortgage.
If you post your address at a website, you will always get spammed.
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I got spam at my Ameritech account the day it was opened.
I got it at my earthlink account as soon as I changed email addresses to avoid spam. Not a single spam at my lesser-known ISP in six months.
I've been getting some interesting spam since someone did a search of aac@* and figured out that aac@mit.edu was a valid address (mailing list). Fortunately, it was ridiculously easy to solve the problem, since mit allows you to take yourself off any list. I'm wondering if the others on the list have figured it out yet.
lol. I posted uce@ftc.gov some time ago. I suspect that spam bots have actually sent spam there!
One thing I love about GREX:
The staff's efforts to prevent spam mail aren't met with suspicion and
paranoia.
We *still* have a modem with defective flow control which dumps the connection when you try using sz. <sigh> If Jan is measuring modem usage without taking the defective modems (noisy, disconnecting) into account, the actual demand is being understated by at least one full line, maybe two.
The network connection is down.
It's up now, or was a few minutes ago.
Russ, dial 761-5041 instea dof 761-3000. I never have download problems with the former and usually do with the latter (with Kermit). Most people don't seem to be downloading so they tolerate the bad modem.
I keep getting Grex's bible quote rejection messages when trying to send someone mail from here. This surprises me, since I thought the spam filters only operated on incoming mail. Any ideas what I should change in my message to get it to slide through?
Send mail to postmaster. Include a copy of the bounce message. There are lots of things that can cause bible quotes, and yes, most of them apply to mail of any origin, internal or external.
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