Re: Spam incident today over Gossip mailing list!

On December 26, 2003 at 15:13, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> 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.

Spammers are getting more agressive.  For example, I have had
two incidents of spammers using bug submission for the MHonArc
project to spread their message.  It is also common for some
to cruise web forums and post spam messages.

--ewh