Re: spam

Re: spam

[Tom Watson]

Lee Revell wrote:
> OK, with so many people on vacation, the spam really is killing the SN
> ratio on this list.
> 
> We need to ask Sourceforge to block all text/html.  I can't remember the
> last time someone sent one of these that was not spam.
> 

Wonderful idea.  Be sure of a few things:
1)  Don't convert the messages to quoted printable.  That was done before
    and with all the '=' in the bug tracking messages it was TERRIBLE.
2)  A notice should be posted.  Some people have their mailers configured
    to send HTML as well as plain text (why is a big question to me).
3)  Perhaps a 'bounce' if the message is in HTML (I'm kinda iffy on this
    one).
4)  Check to see that the digest version looks OK.  Sometimes the
    differences (minor or major) are really bad!

Now if we could get rid of ALL HTML mail that would be (Martha Stewart
voice here) "a good thing".  Alas that isn't going to happen anytime
soon (*SIGH*)

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Re: spam

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:18 -0700, Tom Watson wrote:
> Now if we could get rid of ALL HTML mail that would be (Martha Stewart
> voice here) "a good thing".  Alas that isn't going to happen anytime
> soon (*SIGH*)
> 

I'd be happy just to purge it from developer mailing lists.  But
unfortunately, HTML mail is tolerated on many of those (don't ask me
why).

Lee



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Re: spam

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:18 -0700, Tom Watson wrote:
> 2)  A notice should be posted.  Some people have their mailers configured
>     to send HTML as well as plain text (why is a big question to me).
> 3)  Perhaps a 'bounce' if the message is in HTML (I'm kinda iffy on this
>     one).

I think we need to just drop it on the floor.  A bounce would just sit
in the outbound queue forever because most spammers don't take bounces.
It's not worth the trouble for the tiny percentage of non-spam html
mail.

Lee



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Re: spam

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 16:30 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:18 -0700, Tom Watson wrote:
> > 2)  A notice should be posted.  Some people have their mailers configured
> >     to send HTML as well as plain text (why is a big question to me).
> > 3)  Perhaps a 'bounce' if the message is in HTML (I'm kinda iffy on this
> >     one).
> 
> I think we need to just drop it on the floor.  A bounce would just sit
> in the outbound queue forever because most spammers don't take bounces.
> It's not worth the trouble for the tiny percentage of non-spam html
> mail.
> 

I opened a trouble ticket for the spam problem:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1244105&group_id=1&atid=200001

Lee



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Spam

[Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi]

Good Day,

I have a business proposal of USD $22,500,000.00 only for you to transact
with me from my bank to your country. All confirmable documents to back up
the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance.Reply to
address:choi_chu14@yahoo.co.jp and I will let you know what is required of
you.

Best Regards,
Mr. Vincent Cheng

spam

[Lee Revell]

It seems that the most blindingly obvious spam is making it to
alsa-devel.

Can't Sourceforge just trash anything with "Pharmacy" or
"Pharmaceutical" in the subject?  I mean, they don't even bother to mess
up the spelling, this should be like fish in a barrel.

Lee



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Re: spam

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:

> It seems that the most blindingly obvious spam is making it to
> alsa-devel.
> 
> Can't Sourceforge just trash anything with "Pharmacy" or
> "Pharmaceutical" in the subject?  I mean, they don't even bother to mess
> up the spelling, this should be like fish in a barrel.

I've added 'subject: .*pharmac.*' hold post rule for the alsa-devel 
mailing list, so mailman does this job for us.

						Jaroslav

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Re: spam

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:56 +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > It seems that the most blindingly obvious spam is making it to
> > alsa-devel.
> > 
> > Can't Sourceforge just trash anything with "Pharmacy" or
> > "Pharmaceutical" in the subject?  I mean, they don't even bother to mess
> > up the spelling, this should be like fish in a barrel.
> 
> I've added 'subject: .*pharmac.*' hold post rule for the alsa-devel 
> mailing list, so mailman does this job for us.

Thanks!  Now if only we could filter out "low rates" without impacting
discussion of SRCs...

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spam

[Lee Revell]

OK, with so many people on vacation, the spam really is killing the SN
ratio on this list.

We need to ask Sourceforge to block all text/html.  I can't remember the
last time someone sent one of these that was not spam.

Lee



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Re: spam

[Hinko Kocevar]

Lee Revell wrote:
> OK, with so many people on vacation, the spam really is killing the SN
> ratio on this list.
> 
> We need to ask Sourceforge to block all text/html.  I can't remember the
> last time someone sent one of these that was not spam.
> 

I'm with you! This is by far the most spammed list that I'm subscribed to.

-- 
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then it is already implemented or somebody is working on it".

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spam

[S. Barret Dolph]

Why is there now so much spam on this list?

Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
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Re: spam

[Mike Turcotte]

S. Barret Dolph wrote:

>Why is there now so much spam on this list?
>
>Cordially,
>S. Barret Dolph
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People (or companies) actually think that people will open these 
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SPAM

[Piotr Perak]

I'm sorry but I have to test.
does this get to the list correctly?

Re: SPAM

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 09:46, Piotr Perak wrote:
>I'm sorry but I have to test.
>does this get to the list correctly?
>
It got as far as West Virginia USA via the lkml.

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SPAM

[Richard B. Johnson]

Hello list,
Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that
they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is
the condition upon which users get "free" service. However,
they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This
means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your
wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately
be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc.
Be forewarned.

I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if
email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to
send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
but it's a logical black hole.

Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are
paranoid!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: SPAM

[Maciej Soltysiak]

> send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
> SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
> the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
> but it's a logical black hole.
Hmm, so how come yahoo servers rarely get to RBL lists?
I just did a check on 9 yahoo mx servers, only one server
was filtered on ONLY ONE out of 7 rbl servers.
64.156.215.5 RBL filtered by l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net

Try adding l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net to your rblserver, maybe it will help.

Maciej

SPAM

[Jan A van de Kraats]

Geachte Heer Mobach,
We hebben vorig jaar een uitgebreide briefwisseling gehad over 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2001-November/003585.html
Ik heb toen mijn excuses aangeboden voor deze situatie, veroorzaakt door 
het gebruik van een email extractor die mij aanbevolen was om het saaie 
werk van handmatig opsporen van onderzoekers bij water instituten te 
omzeilen. Het bleek echter helemaal fout te zijn gegaan: vele anderen 
hadden ook een mail gekregen en waren daar terecht niet blij mee.
Ik heb uiteraard van dit programma geen gebruik meer gemaakt.
Inmiddels is het nog steeds zo dat een zoektocht voor informatie naar mij 
ogenblikkelijk naar bovenstaande site leidt, en dat terwijl ik inmiddels al 
een half jaar met pensioen ben.
Zou het mogelijk zijn deze site te verwijderen?
Bij voorbaat mijn dank!
Vriendelijke groeten,
Jan van de Kraats.

Re: SPAM

[Mendel Mobach]

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On Monday 09 December 2002 10:47, Jan A van de Kraats wrote:
> Geachte Heer Mobach,
> We hebben vorig jaar een uitgebreide briefwisseling gehad over
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2001-November/003585.html Ik
> heb toen mijn excuses aangeboden voor deze situatie, veroorzaakt door het
> gebruik van een email extractor die mij aanbevolen was om het saaie werk
> van handmatig opsporen van onderzoekers bij water instituten te omzeilen.
> Het bleek echter helemaal fout te zijn gegaan: vele anderen hadden ook een
> mail gekregen en waren daar terecht niet blij mee. Ik heb uiteraard van dit
> programma geen gebruik meer gemaakt.
> Inmiddels is het nog steeds zo dat een zoektocht voor informatie naar mij
> ogenblikkelijk naar bovenstaande site leidt, en dat terwijl ik inmiddels al
> een half jaar met pensioen ben. Zou het mogelijk zijn deze site te
> verwijderen?

For our non dutch readers:

Last year here was a spam on this mailinglist.
This is the sender and he wants his spam removed from the web because he 
doesn't want te be associated with his spam.

He says: Last year we had a discussion about some spam and it is stil on the 
website. He doesn't want to believe me if I say that I'm NOT the maintainer 
of this spam. He wanted to spam some "target groep" but he used some stupid 
spamware and now he doesn't want to accept what he did in the paste. I don't 
know what the maintainer does with the (still existing) spam on the website
but it doesn't matter for me anyway.

I told I also cannot remove this information from the google archive. (Is he 
complete clueless ?) Sorry for the offtopic stuff but I guess it was a bit 
more clean to you what he wrote.

Kind Regards,

Mendel Mobach

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spam

[Benjamin LaHaise]

Sorry about that latest round of garbage.  Note that several subscribers 
were booted, and additional bounce regexps added.

		-ben
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