[Utnubu-discuss] Incredible quantity of spam

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

ok, you are right, looks scary. I put them on discard, tell me if it
didn't work.

Greetings,
Joachim

Am Dienstag, den 22.11.2005, 19:44 -0500 schrieb Micah Anderson:
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> Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I guess this is directed to me.
> >
> > I'm not sure about this. If it is something affecting a lot of lists,
> > then this should be done by the mail admins once for all. Also, a few
> > might have info@ adresses themselves (for example because our mailing
> > lists block mail@ adresses, which bit me a few times). But if it really
> > necessary, I can do it.
> 
> I agree, in fact there is an alioth ticket opened about this:
> http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=302530&group_id=1&atid=200001
> 
> What you can do is put in a filter for the info@*.* addresses so that
> any email coming from there will get automatically put on hold and
> requires you to approve them.
> 
> You should have a look at the archive to see how crazy this is:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/utnubu-discuss/2005-November/thread.html
> 
> micah
> 
> 
> Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I guess this is directed to me.
> > 
> > I'm not sure about this. If it is something affecting a lot of lists,
> > then this should be done by the mail admins once for all. Also, a few
> > might have info@ adresses themselves (for example because our mailing
> > lists block mail@ adresses, which bit me a few times). But if it really
> > necessary, I can do it.
> > 
> > Joachim
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, den 22.11.2005, 17:43 -0500 schrieb Micah Anderson:
> > 
> > 
> > It seems like utnubu-discuss and utnubu-maintainers get an incredible
> > amount of spam. Fortunately I don't see most of these because they get
> > automatically put into my Spam folder by my filtering software. However,
> > I need to troll that folder once a week to train it on the ones it
> > mistakenly caught... what I have found is a large amount of the messages
> > in there in the past few weeks have been to these lists from the great
> > info@*.* addresses that have been spamming alioth lists like crazy in
> > the past few weeks.
> > 
> > Can the list admin block info@*.* so that they get automatically
> > dropped? A number of other alioth list admins have done this with success.
> > 
> > micah
> 
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