"LISTSERV site administrators' forum" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote on 12/01/2005 11:46:55 PM:
> Greetings all, I have a question that I have not found an answer to
> yet. So thought I would ask the ListServ mailing list.
>
> Pretty well every mailing list on our campus listserv machine gets
> similar emails to the below on a regular basis. The original email
> is considered phishing spam and should never be going to any of the
> mailing lists we host. We had a query recently of the viability of
> dropping any email inbound to our server which is from one of about
> 25 addresses commonly used in phishing attacks. As these 25
> addresses have been served out already, we would really love to find
> a recommended way to either drop these emails in LSMTP or
> listserv...or otherwise not bother the individual list owners with
> these "problem" reports.
>
> Do any of you have suggestions on how to best silence the junk caused
> by this fraudulent email?
Have you considered placing Listserv behind a good spam filter? Most will
detect phishing expeditions as spam and block them.