FriendlyGreeting is Expanding

[Brian Chivers]

Ah, OK.

Luckily I don't have to deal with this type of enviroment so I'm able to
take a simplier way out. All our machines connect via proxies so we can just
block the site. If the users moan I can just say that it isn't for college
use and to do it at home.

Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Evans" <sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: FriendlyGreeting is Expanding


> We can't block all our users from getting to their site.  Most of our
> e-mail users are on different networks.  And even the ones that do
> physically reside on our network work from home sometimes.
>
> Steve Evans
> SDSU Foundation
> (619) 594-0653
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Chivers [mailto:brian at PORTSMOUTH-COLLEGE.AC.UK]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:01 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: FriendlyGreeting is Expanding
>
>
> Yah but surely if they can't get to the website to download the program
> it doesn't pose a threat.
>
> Am I misunderstanding this ??
>
> Brian Chivers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Evans" <sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: FriendlyGreeting is Expanding
>
>
> > Blocking the friendlygreeting domains won't work because the "Virus"
> > comes from a user.
> >
> > Steve Evans
> > SDSU Foundation
> > (619) 594-0653
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Rice [mailto:krice at SERVERSANDSOLUTIONS.COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:11 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: FriendlyGreeting is Expanding
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:28:27 -0800
> > Steve Evans <sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > > I am ready to just block all e-mail.
> >
> > how about yahoo, hotmail, web2mail, msn.com...  8-)
> >
> > > I attached the two possibilitys now according to Mcafee.  Does
> > > anybody have a long term solution for these guys.  I believe the
> > > rule that Julian suggested adding to spam.assassin.prefs.conf only
> > > covers the first one.
> >
> > I have the "luxury" of running servers for our corporation, including
> > lists for our customers, so we have no "public" users. (We're a
> > liberal corporation, but with no 'Net policies).
> > Since email passing through our email server(s) are supposedly only
> > business-related, I use 2 approaches.
> >
> > One is sendmail based, in my sendmail.mc I have:
> >
> > LOCAL_RULESETS
> > F{JunkSubs} /etc/mail/junksubs.txt
> > F{SSJunk} /etc/mail/ssjunk.txt
> >
> > HSubject:       $>Check_Subject
> >
> > SCheck_Subject
> > R$={JunkSubs}$* $: NMJUNKSUB
> > R$* $={SSJunk} $*       $#error $: NMJUNKSUB
> > R$* NMJUNKSUB $*        $#error $: "553 Rejected"
> >
> > my ssjunk.txt includes:
> > e-card
> > greeting.card
> > greeting.cardyou.have.an.e-card
> > you.have.a.greeting.card.from
> > along with many other phrases/words from v*agra on, including some
> > sick stuff.
> >
> > In my spam.assassin.prefs.conf (mailscanner-3.26-1): blacklist_from
> > *@*.friendgreetings.com blacklist_from  *@friendgreetings.com
> > blacklist_from  *@*.friend-greetings.com
> > blacklist_from  *@friend-greetings.com
> > and many others. I believe the above format to be correct, but,
> anyone,
> > pls critique, 'cause it appears to work for me.
> >
> > (Is a TAB really necessary after the "blacklist_from" ?
> >
> > But, as I mentioned this is corporate, so if an employee does complain
>
> > that they aren't getting some "legit" email like an e-card, I try to
> > nicely explain
> > why they're blocked. (or am I really being a "nice" BOFH??)
> >
> > Anyway, MANY THANKS to Julian Field, as with Mailscanner, SpamAssassin
>
> > and the expensive Sophos, upper-level here is QUITE impressed with how
>
> > we can tweak our email flow.
> > And, it's just one more example of a great, reliable open-source
> > software, running on Linux here,
> > so much that I'm within an inch of convincing them that our primary
> *nix
> > platform for Oracle
> > should now be Linux.
> >
> > Sorry for the ramble,
> >
> > Ken Rice
> > The Library Corporation
> > (first commercial CD-ROM made (with Hitachi back then) in the world)
> > http://www.tlcdelivers.com
> >
> > Yeah, serversANDsolutions.com is my domain, but they let me work from
> > home a lot for many reasons.
> >
> > opensource, of course!
> >
>
>
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