Re: Spam incident today over Gossip mailing list!
Dror Matalon <[email protected]>
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Jeff, I didn't see this today. Are you sure it made it to the list. Did other people see it? Dror On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:13:06PM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > >[...] Now Available FREE > > Gossip is a "only members can post" mailing list, and to join you have > to go through a confirmation process. Until today's incident, I would > have said we were pretty much spam proof because of that. (For those > looking at the gossip archives, there is some spam mixed in, but none > of that went over the actual list -- it's all an artifact of > Mail-Archive getting spam with extremely funky headers causing them to > archive with gossip). Anyway, I am shocked! At this point I have no > idea if this is some fort of automated attack on Mailman mailing > lists, or if we have a spammer manually targetting gossip. I've of > course removed the spammer from gossip. If there are more incidents, I > guess I'll have to figure out additional measures. This is definitely > a new low and I'm sorry that this garbage got through. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Gossip mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.fastbuzz.com http://www.zapatec.com