spam

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.

-- 
..because under Linux "if something is possible in principle,
then it is already implemented or somebody is working on it".

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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*)

-- 
Tom Watson
tsw@johana.com

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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

[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

-----
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs


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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...

Lee



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