[Dspace-general] spam alert

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi JQ,

dspace-general is using MIT's centrally managed listserv services
and mail relay, which are run by our central computer services group.
They've been working with AOL, spamcop, etc to demonstrate how
they're eliminating spam and to introduce smtp authentication. As
far as we know, spamcop should be removing MIT from their list soon.

Beyond this, there's not much we in the Libraries can do about it,
but if actual spam is becoming a problem then we'll convert the list
to a moderated one.

Thanks for the heads up,

MacKenzie/

At 10:30 AM 10/20/2003 -0700, JQ Johnson wrote:
>Our institutional spam filters have started to complain about mail to
>dspace-general at mit.edu.  Here's the report for email I got just now:
>
>  pts rule name              description
>---- ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------
>--
>  1.9 WEIRD_PORT             URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP
>  2.2 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net
>                   [Blocked - see
><http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?18.7.21.86>]
>  1.3 RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAY    RBL: NJABL: sender is confirmed open relay
>                             [18.7.21.86 listed in dnsbl.njabl.org]
>  0.1 RCVD_IN_NJABL          RBL: Received via a relay in dnsbl.njabl.org
>                             [18.7.21.86 listed in dnsbl.njabl.org]
>
>We'd be very appreciative if MIT could clean up the software on
>melbourne-city-street.mit.edu to eliminate the potential for its use as an
>open relay.  If that can be done, then it will disappear from the NJABL and
>SPAMCOP blacklists.
>
>JQ Johnson                      Office: 115F Knight Library
>Academic Education Coordinator  mailto:jqj at darkwing.uoregon.edu
>1299 University of Oregon       phone: 1-541-346-1746; -3485 fax
>Eugene, OR  97403-1299          http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/
>
>
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MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building 14S-208
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu