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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