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Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:07 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > The upstream rules_du_jour folk have had issues over the last few |
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> > months with DDoS and other attacks. Additionally, the nature of |
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> > their original update mechanism causes a lot of traffic. |
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> > |
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> > Everybody that is using rules_du_jour is strongly encouraged to move |
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> > to using the sa-update mechanism that is included with recent |
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> > versions of SpamAssassin. |
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> > |
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> > Here is a guide to using SARE rulesets with sa-update: |
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> > http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt |
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> > |
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> > mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour will be p.masked on August 4th, |
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> > and removed one month thereafter. |
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> |
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> Do you have references for this security issues? Maybe a bug should be |
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> opened to decide if we release a maskglsa for this one. |
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It's not a vulnerability in Rules du Jour. It's a bunch of spammers |
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attacking the Rules du Jour servers and ISP. SARE has also been down a |
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whole bunch over the last couple of months due to the same attack. |
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-- |
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"Such things have often happened and still happen, |
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and how can these be signs of the end of the world?" |
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-- Julian, Emperor of Rome 361-363 A.D. |
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