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Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:20:03 -0500
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"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.

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