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administrivia: spam attack
it appears that at least one of the lists has made it onto a
spammer's mailing list. the spammer is using bogus from addresses,
making it difficult to track down the source.
therefore, i have re-enabled a feature of the exim mail transport
that we use on the new server, a feature named "sender_verify".
with sender_verify enabled, exim will refuse to accept email when the
From: address does resolve in a domain name service lookup (for the
non-technically minded, if the server gets email from barny@domain.elided,
it will try to lookup fred.com, and if it can't resolve it, it will
reject the mail.)
unfortunately, some sites on the net have broken domain name service;
you may have trouble reaching the list in such cases. if you do have
a problem, let me know at the rwelty@domain.elided address.
the relevance for alfa-digest and bmw-digest subscribers is that
sender_verify will be in place when these digests move to the new
server; the alfa-digest is scheduled to move on wednesday the 10th of
december, in the early afternoon, and the bmw-digest during the first
week of january.
cheers,
richard
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Richard Welty rwelty@domain.elided
Krusty Motorsports (Racing and Web Page Development):
http://www.krusty-motorsports.com/
North American Motorsports Pages:
http://www.na-motorsports.com/
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