Way too much SPAM on this list atm

[Joe Villari]

Not sur if this would work because another group I belong to has a 
membership required to post and it still gets spam; maybe a little bit 
less than I get here.

Joe

sloopy wrote:
> greetings all,
> 
> i was going to look into the spam problem we are evidently having, since
> i am the list moderator (or atleast one of the two) was going to ask in
> general any suggestions... i dont have any control over the
> machine/setup beyond what mailman offers (the list is hosted by terra
> soft solutions (the kind people who bring us yellowdog linux)). so i was
> thinking of starting by asking all list members if changing to requiring
> membership to post would be a problem for anyone? (some people have dual
> accounts setup for spam detection/deletion and this can be a problem for
> them)
> 
> i am reading the mailman doc for more info on fixing this but any
> suggestions/ideas are certainly welcome...
> 
> sloopy.
> --
> MOL-General Mailing List Moderator
> (yes the guy who deletes the spam you dont see ;')
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 03:57, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately, this trick wouldn't work.
>>
>>I am also subscribed to a Crystal Space mailing list, which uses 
>>[CsMain] Subject heading...
>>
>>Even there, we still get spam, and several spam mails simply start with 
>>[CsMain] as well. Apparently certain spam generators are already clever 
>>enough to include this.
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>Geert
>>
>>Dominik wrote:
>>
>>>How about we start changing the subject line to something like
>>>"[mol-general] Subject heading..."  that way we will always have
>>>[mol-general] in the subject so we know whats spam and not.  We could
>>>have the list manager send new users this info.
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:42, Thomas Otto wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ops, Mozilla just threw your mail into "Junkmail" as well, probalby 
>>>>doesn't trust anything from "mol-general" anymore :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>I just checked my mail again and 30 or so of mails to this list were 
>>>>>>SPAM, last checked maybe 3 hours ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any chance this list gets a spamassassin or similar, maybe kill 
>>>>>>"mol-general" and use another name for this?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>What about, if possible:
>>>>>
>>>>>1) for registered users: all pass
>>>>
>>>>If any mail to this address goes through I think we have the source of 
>>>>this problem :).
>>>>This is little more than a spam multiplyer at the moment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>2) for non-registered users, one of these options:
>>>>>  a) let spam assassin decide
>>>>>  b) let some moderator decide (any volunteer? :) )
>>>>>  c) always rejects, require users to be registered to send.
>>>>
>>>>I'd drop it, if a person wants a reply he/she is probably subscriped and 
>>>>thereby registered anyhow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>---
>>>>
>>>>And btw .sig delimiters should be '-- ' (mind the space) not '---' :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   -Thomas
>>>
> 
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