Re: This mailing list contains a significant daily intake of SPAM

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Jay Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to point out that this mailing list has at least one
> auto-responding spammer. =A0Every time I send a message to it, I get a
> spam (allegedly from yahoogroups.com) with the subject "Please confirm
> your request to join preschool_edu_newsletter". =A0Any plans to put an
> end to this, or is there some anti-spam trick everyone's using that I
> don't know about yet?

This is a common problem with djb's various mailing lists.  He doesn't
seem interested in weeding out the offenders.  I

If you can guess the subscribed address, you can see if you can sucker
the autoresponder into unsubscribing itself by replying to an
unsubscribe challenge from ezmlm.

You can also track the mail sent out back to the source and complain
to the abuse address.  I've tried that once.  It took forever, and I
think it was actually the upstream provider that took action.

As to filtering it out, while all of these autoresponders are highly
annoying, the level of spamminess varies.  A custom filter to file
each one would probably be more accurate than trying to train
something to recognize them as spam.

Setting up another list that somebody is willing to administer would
be an option, too.  I don't put up with this crap on zinq-general.
Y'all are welcome to use it.  Or not.  Suit yourself.