No, I don't administer the list.   I do need to contact Mike Neulip in
Chicago, who does it.   I don't think he reads all the mail.
I'll get him to put some new rules in majordomo.
Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: sdoerr <sdoerr@qni.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: kclug - Email Advertising Special--Ends Friday

> Frank Wiles wrote:
>
> >     Honestly I can't belive the list isn't already setup like this.
> >     Not to be harsh, but if I get another piece of spam via this list
> >     I'm getting off. I've gotten more spam from this list than I do to
> >     my personal e-mail address.
>
> Hang in there a little bit Frank, let's see if anyone has input on making
sure
> kclug's mailing list is secure.  If anyone has any other ideas, please
post
> them to the list.
>
> Some resources:
>
> To do some tracing and auto reporting of spam, go to:
> http://spamcop.net
> You'll have to give them an e-mail address and they'll mail you back an
> authorization url that you can use to trace and report the spam.
>
> ******If you use the above or another method to contact the sources of
this
> spam, please save a copy or record of the correspondence, to use later to
get
> them blackholed (if they don't take any action to prevent it).*******
>
> Brian (I assume you administer the kclug list), majordomo should be
> configurable to only allow members to post to the list.  You should be
able to
> filter out some obvious spam and avoid having to deal w/ it yourself.
Outside
> stuff of interest should go to you, and then you could post it to the
list.
>
> Also, you may want to check out the following services to make sure kclug
is on
> them.
> http://www.orbs.org/
> http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ (check out the "reporting spammers" resource)
>
> Getting spammers on these lists requires some documentation of your
efforts to
> notify the administrators of the systems that relay this crap.  The above
urls
> explain how to use the services and I'm sure they'll be glad to answer
any
> questions about the process.
>
> Please offer any other ideas, anyone, if you have them.  Once this stuff
is
> setup, I don't think spam will be a problem.
>
> Steve