* list spam @ 2014-02-18 16:13 Stan Hoeppner 2014-02-18 17:25 ` Brent Bice 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Stan Hoeppner @ 2014-02-18 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Brent Bice, Russell Cattelan Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past months. What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 16:13 list spam Stan Hoeppner @ 2014-02-18 17:25 ` Brent Bice 2014-02-18 19:44 ` Keith Keller 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Brent Bice @ 2014-02-18 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: stan, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Russell Cattelan, Trevor Hurst On 02/18/2014 09:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html > we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past > months. > > What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? Make it a moderated list... (though I'd also offer my condolences to the people nominated as moderators) I haven't looked at how the archives are setup or indexed or what would be required to remove individual emails from the archives (without breaking things). I believe Trev might have done this though. (I passed on some warnings about malware in the oss archives to him in the past) Brent _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 17:25 ` Brent Bice @ 2014-02-18 19:44 ` Keith Keller 2014-02-18 21:22 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Keith Keller @ 2014-02-18 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-xfs On 2014-02-18, Brent Bice <bbice@sgi.com> wrote: > On 02/18/2014 09:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html >> we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past >> months. >> >> What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? > > Make it a moderated list... (though I'd also offer my condolences to > the people nominated as moderators) Since the list is backed by Mailman, there is a less extreme option: restrict posting to subscribed email addresses. This won't prevent all spam, but will cut down a lot. People will still have a harder time emailing the list, but it'd be even harder with a moderated list, so restricting to subscribed addresses may be a reasonable compromise. --keith -- kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 19:44 ` Keith Keller @ 2014-02-18 21:22 ` Dave Chinner 2014-02-18 21:59 ` Stan Hoeppner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2014-02-18 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Keith Keller; +Cc: xfs On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:44:51AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-02-18, Brent Bice <bbice@sgi.com> wrote: > > On 02/18/2014 09:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html > >> we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past > >> months. > >> > >> What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? > > > > Make it a moderated list... (though I'd also offer my condolences to > > the people nominated as moderators) > > Since the list is backed by Mailman, there is a less extreme option: > restrict posting to subscribed email addresses. This won't prevent all > spam, but will cut down a lot. People will still have a harder time > emailing the list, but it'd be even harder with a moderated list, so > restricting to subscribed addresses may be a reasonable compromise. We'll move the list before to a different host before we restrict access or moderate the list. It's an open public list, and it is going to remain that way. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases. Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 21:22 ` Dave Chinner @ 2014-02-18 21:59 ` Stan Hoeppner 2014-02-18 22:52 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Stan Hoeppner @ 2014-02-18 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Chinner, Keith Keller; +Cc: xfs On 2/18/2014 3:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: ... > I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam > is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases. > Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. 53/173, non-scientific, in my folders, so roughly 1/3rd of spam getting through the nets is addressed to the deprecated address. I agree, kill that alias. > FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists > directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. Maybe my vision is skewed. The only other open list I sub is linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. It has a little less average volume than xfs, but only like one spam every few days gets through. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 21:59 ` Stan Hoeppner @ 2014-02-18 22:52 ` Dave Chinner 2014-02-18 22:59 ` Troy McCorkell 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2014-02-18 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stan Hoeppner; +Cc: Keith Keller, xfs On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:59:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/18/2014 3:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > ... > > I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam > > is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases. > > Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. > > 53/173, non-scientific, in my folders, so roughly 1/3rd of spam getting > through the nets is addressed to the deprecated address. I agree, kill > that alias. > > > FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists > > directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. > > Maybe my vision is skewed. The only other open list I sub is > linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. It has a little less average volume than > xfs, but only like one spam every few days gets through. More likely my vision is skewed - I deal with a few thousand of emails every day and delete most of them immediately without reading anything other than the subject line(*). Spam is a tiny, tiny percentage of the of mail I process every day.... Perspective ;) Cheers, Dave. (*) The shiniest key on my keyboard is 'd', indicating it is the most used key, all because I use it to delete mail ;) -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: list spam 2014-02-18 22:52 ` Dave Chinner @ 2014-02-18 22:59 ` Troy McCorkell 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Troy McCorkell @ 2014-02-18 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xfs On 02/18/2014 04:52 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:59:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 2/18/2014 3:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: >> ... >> >>> I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam >>> is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases. >>> Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. >>> >> 53/173, non-scientific, in my folders, so roughly 1/3rd of spam getting >> through the nets is addressed to the deprecated address. I agree, kill >> that alias. >> >> >>> FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists >>> directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. >>> >> Maybe my vision is skewed. The only other open list I sub is >> linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. It has a little less average volume than >> xfs, but only like one spam every few days gets through. >> > More likely my vision is skewed - I deal with a few thousand of > emails every day and delete most of them immediately without reading > anything other than the subject line(*). Spam is a tiny, tiny > percentage of the of mail I process every day.... > > Perspective ;) > > Cheers, > > Dave. > > (*) The shiniest key on my keyboard is 'd', indicating it is the > most used key, all because I use it to delete mail ;) > I'll talk with the SGI IT group about disabling the linux-xfs mail alias. Thanks, Troy _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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