[1921] in bugtraq
re: "Bonde" Jokes from Karl Strickland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kayvan Sylvan)
Wed May 31 02:11:20 1995
Date: Tue, 30 May 95 22:07 PDT
To: Eric Conrad <econrad@bu.edu>
Cc: Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950530200112.24474C-100000@it>
From: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com>
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Conrad <econrad@bu.edu> writes:
>> Well, Karl, that's one way of removing your ID from the BUGTRAQ
>> mailing-list, i.e., off-topic postings.
Eric> Hasn't it ocurred to anyone that a really simple denial of service
Eric> attack vs. bugtraq would be to send fakemail nonsense 'from' known
Eric> security folks to bugtraq?
The SmartList-3.10 code (based on top of procmail-3.10) has some nice
features that could be used to get around this kind of nonesense. In
particular, you can automatically check various headers for
consistency and only allow Email to be sent to the list from
subscribers.
---Kayvan
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