Administrivia: Spam getting through to service-discuss
Sorry everybody, it looks like someone posted some spam through the web interface today. I deleted their threads from the list archive and set all further posts from their account to discard automatically, but if we see more abuses along these lines we may need to change the default moderation method for new users (so that their posts will be held by default until a moderator confirms they're sending legitimate messages, and then switches them individually to unmoderated). I'll try to keep a close eye on this. Users asked us for mailing lists that are easier for newcomers to post to, but unfortunately that means mailing lists that are easier for spammers to post to as well. :/ -- Jeremy Stanley
FWIW, this spam has not reached my mailbox. Radek On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 14:44, Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
Sorry everybody, it looks like someone posted some spam through the web interface today. I deleted their threads from the list archive and set all further posts from their account to discard automatically, but if we see more abuses along these lines we may need to change the default moderation method for new users (so that their posts will be held by default until a moderator confirms they're sending legitimate messages, and then switches them individually to unmoderated). I'll try to keep a close eye on this.
Users asked us for mailing lists that are easier for newcomers to post to, but unfortunately that means mailing lists that are easier for spammers to post to as well. :/ -- Jeremy Stanley
On 2023-09-30 16:35:04 +0200 (+0200), Radosław Piliszek wrote:
FWIW, this spam has not reached my mailbox. [...]
It most likely got caught in your (and other subscribers) own spam filters, which is even worse, since it increases the odds that mail providers will flag our listserv as a spam source. -- Jeremy Stanley
On Sat, 30 Sept 2023, 17:48 Jeremy Stanley, <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
On 2023-09-30 16:35:04 +0200 (+0200), Radosław Piliszek wrote:
FWIW, this spam has not reached my mailbox. [...]
It most likely got caught in your (and other subscribers) own spam filters, which is even worse, since it increases the odds that mail providers will flag our listserv as a spam source.
Aye. What's more, it must have been caught at the low level because it did not even end up in the spam folder.
On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, Radosław Piliszek wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sept 2023, 17:48 Jeremy Stanley, <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
On 2023-09-30 16:35:04 +0200 (+0200), Radosław Piliszek wrote:
FWIW, this spam has not reached my mailbox. [...]
It most likely got caught in your (and other subscribers) own spam filters, which is even worse, since it increases the odds that mail providers will flag our listserv as a spam source.
Aye. What's more, it must have been caught at the low level because it did not even end up in the spam folder.
My self-hosted email system got all four messages Message-ID: <169607348850.409.2180549006404903101@lists01.opendev.org> Message-ID: <169607352820.409.14060785783048008757@lists01.opendev.org> Message-ID: <169607370541.407.15964151636844822833@lists01.opendev.org> Message-ID: <169607379225.409.16715279120173771208@lists01.opendev.org> One can hope that spam rejection at Google Mail discarded the messages due to their content, for example every message contained a URL. What is even more interesting, Google itself is hosting the spammer. Please keep the mail working, despite this! Marcin
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Jeremy Stanley
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Marcin Cieslak
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Radosław Piliszek