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25 new of 870 responses total.
keesan
response 730 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 14 15:33 UTC 2005

I get lots of spam with header 'To:':   benny, amit, ebsy, eh, kleptic, krex,
makji and hal9000, none of whom exist at grex.  Could someone set up a
systemwide procmail filter on these?  (I also get spam addressed to at least
6 currently active grexers).  Putting Subject:...prescripiton and
Subject:...taladafil and X-Message-Info, img.src, and java would catch at
least half of the rest of the spam.  Does anyone WANT to get emails with these
at grex?  In my case at least nobody but spammers writes me about medications
or meds, but maybe some people discuss those with their friends, along with
cumshots and mortgage refinancing.  
other
response 731 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 14 17:51 UTC 2005

Any about cumshot refinancing?
gelinas
response 732 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 14 20:55 UTC 2005

Just a heads-up:  I'm not going to get to Provide.Net today. :(
gelinas
response 733 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 23:03 UTC 2005

I got there today.

My Cat5 cable contained two eight-conductor cables: one blue and one yellow.
I put an RJ-11 connector at each end of each of them (leaving four wires
unused in each cable) and put that in place of the separate telephone cords
we had been using.  So that part of the problem should be fixed.

I also plugged a telepone directly into the test jacks: one (0512) was dead,
and the other (0513) was so noisy that the telephone wouldn't dial through.
I called SBC from another line in the facility to report the problem.  They
promised by repair by tomorrow evening.  That should take care of the second
part of the problem.

Since only one line was working, 0513, and only tty00 has been used, I changed
the order of the modems so that 0512 would be on tty00 and 0513 would be on
tty01.  Now we wait for the lines to be fixed to see if I fixed that part of
the problem, as well.
keesan
response 734 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 23:31 UTC 2005

Thanks a lot Joe.  I hope SBC will also refund us the charges for the period
when the lines were not usable.  I look forward to dialing in again.
Maybe then I will be able to print out my email again?  When I try (with %
or with Y after enabling that), the file just scrolls across the screen but
does not print to 'attache-to-ansi' - or maybe I simply don't know how to
print in linux, though I did insmod three modules - parport, parport_pc and
lp - do I also need lpr?  Normally I just dial in with DOS and kermit.
gull
response 735 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 23:45 UTC 2005

My experience with SBC is that you should expect it to take several
tries to get a reliable line. Hopefully they'll do a better job for you,
though.
edina
response 736 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 00:07 UTC 2005

Ok, once again when I logged on, it showed all the items in the winter agora
as being brand new.  What's up with that?
dpc
response 737 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 00:09 UTC 2005

I've been out of town, and unable to telnet in, for several days.
Just now, when I logged in, I was told (quite understandably) that
my mailbox was full, and that I would not be able to receive any
more mail until I removed some of it.

So - wait for it - I tried to read my mail and was told that /tmp
was full, and my quota was exceeded!  

There is no way I can read any mail.

Would someone with a clue *puh-leez* increase the disk quotas for
mail so that I (and others) can read it?  Thanx!
aruba
response 738 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 06:05 UTC 2005

Thanks Joe, for dealing with the modems.
naftee
response 739 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 06:19 UTC 2005

Thanks Mark!
eprom
response 740 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 17:37 UTC 2005

Grex won't let me save changes to the HTML version of a conf login.html file
albaugh
response 741 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 18:04 UTC 2005

dpc is suffering the same thing I went through, until my /tmp quota was
increased.  Is this how it's going to be - one by one, affected users have
to ask for help to solve something they could have solved for themselves?
tod
response 742 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 18:06 UTC 2005

Do you have spam filters?
keesan
response 743 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 18:33 UTC 2005

A short spam filter that catches about 75% of my spam - 
delete lines starting in #, which I put in for information only.

.forward (in home directory):

|/usr/local/bin/procmail

.procmailrc  (in home directory):

MAIL=/var/mail/yourlogin                ##change this!!!
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/from 
VERBOSE=on

##The above sets your mail directory and produces a logfile
##with a list of what mail went where and why -- ~/mail/from
##which you can read with pine, L, as 'from'.  You can see if
##the filter caught a real mail and why, then either put the
##mailer on your white list or remove the filter that caught it.

## This first filter forwards mails over 100K to my other address.
:0:
* >100000
! keesan@myotheraddress.org

#The next two are 'white list', mail to be let through:
#Change from carole to the names of people who write you 
#if your filter catches their mail.  
:0:
* ^From:.*carole
$MAIL

#Change to subjects that you want to be sure not to accidentally filter
:0:
* ^Subject:.*ebay
$MAIL

#This filter lets through mail from people using pine.
:0:
* ^References:.*pine
$MAIL

#The following is a sample of how to filter on mails with word 
# 'filter' in message body and send them to mail folder filter.
# Useful if you want to save mail from a list.
:0B:
* ^*filter
${HOME}/mail/filter

#The rest of this throws out (to /dev/null) spam.

#All mail with java in it is spam.
:0:
* ^Content-type:.*java
/dev/null

#I don't know what this is, but it is always spam.
:0:
* ^X-Message-Info:
/dev/null

#All mail with embedded images is spam.
:0B:
* ^.*img.src
/dev/null

#All mail sent to these characters is spam, unless you are carson.
:0:
* ^To:.*benny
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*carson
/dev/null

:0:
* ^From:.*carson
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*cme
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*gmike
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*hal9000
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*krex
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*makji
/dev/null

:0:
* ^To:.*pez
/dev/null

:0:
* ^Cc:.*true
/dev/null

:0:
* ^Subject:.*medication
/dev/null

#perscription, prescripiton
:0:
* ^Subject:.*p..scrip..on
/dev/null

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\|
/dev/null

## The following lines (0B) filter on message bodies only:
##The first will catch cialis, c!ial1s, etc.

:0B:
* ^.*c.al.s
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*deals
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*medication
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*meds
/dev/null

#the . is any character, the ? means character before it is optional
# so this catches mortgage, mor.tg.agge etc.
:0B:
* ^*mor.?tg.?agg?e
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*pills
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*\%.rate
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*refinance
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*rx
/dev/null

:0B:
* ^.*s0ft
/dev/null


#leave the next line so real mail will arrive safely

:0:
$MAIL
albaugh
response 744 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 18:44 UTC 2005

That's fine, but one's mailbox filling up isn't always about SPAM:
Friends could send you several large file attachments, and that would do it.
keesan
response 745 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 18:47 UTC 2005

That is why I started the filter with a section that forwards large mails to
some other address.  You could also just set the filter to send the large
mails to /dev/null if you don't have a forwarding address.  I added this
filter (with much help from mcnally) after a friend sent me a 700K photo
(which she following with 1.3 and 1.4MB).  See the line with 1000 in it.
gull
response 746 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 21:01 UTC 2005

I think it'd be better to fix the underlying problem, which is that the
/tmp quota is apparently smaller than the mailbox quota.
gelinas
response 747 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 21:41 UTC 2005

SBC is at Provide.Net working on the lines now.  Apparently, the problem is
extensive; they hope to get it fixed tonight, but if they can't, they'll be
back on it first thing in the morning.

Right now, the lines are ringing open.
aruba
response 748 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 22:12 UTC 2005

Thanks for the update, Joe.  I wonder what the problem was?  Bad wires, I
suppose.
albaugh
response 749 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 22:45 UTC 2005

"Bad dates"
gelinas
response 750 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 01:37 UTC 2005

They have to replace the cable and will be out tomorrow to finish the job.
dpc
response 751 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 01:42 UTC 2005

Thanks to whoever fixed my /tmp quota!
gelinas
response 752 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 04:03 UTC 2005

I've now reset the quotas on /tmp for all users who have logged in since the
middle of December (Dec 19 14:45 2004, to be precise).

I've also set newuser to assign the new quota to any new users.
gelinas
response 753 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 04:43 UTC 2005

I note that there were a couple of connections on tty01 today, before SBC
took the lines down for repair.  So I did get the modems connected to the
'right' lines this time. :)
keesan
response 754 of 870: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 15:04 UTC 2005

Thanks again Joe.  Clever of you not to assign new quotas to non-using users
who would just get more spam.
Today my abridged spam filter posted above caught 13 of my 15 spams that
arrived since midnight:  3 X-message, 3 img.src, 1 java, 2 medication, 2 meds,
1 pills, 1 prescripiton, also (using the longer filter) a generic.drug and
a To: true.  Before I rearranged the order of filters half of the spams were
caught because of the To:  line.  It is interesting how most of my current
spam is due to our lack of national health insurance or care.
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