From: Vincent Danen (vdanenmandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 23:31:58 CDT

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On May 25, 2004, at 6:56 PM, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:

>>> Received a spam that looks like it came through Mandrake's servers.
>>> Has
>>> the list server been compromised? What's going on?
>>>
>>> The message is in Russian, with an inline base64 encoded gif called
>>> "paraclete.gif".
>>
>> No... this is just the joys of having sympa handling things again.
>>
> Tsk, tsk. While I can't imagine why sympa would be used, the MTA is
> still
> postfix and it can be configured to block this kind of thing.

Sure it can... I have no idea why it isn't, but I've asked that
something be done. I don't like getting moderator requests for spam
all the time... I already get more spam than legitimate email anyways.

> That said, this list is pretty good comparedcompared to some.
> Everyone should
> be glad this isn't the (Dare I say it?) debian list

Well, it's just changed to sympa... so time will tell I guess.

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