Am 21.03.20 um 21:29 schrieb Frank Ch. Eigler via Gcc:
Hi -
since the change to the new list management, there has been
an uptick of spam getting through. Spam is bounced by my ISP,
and this just resulted in a warning that there were too many
bounces and that I would get removed from the list unless I
confirmed it (which I then did).
This has now happened a second time, and this question
For my reference, could you forward one of these spams & bounces to me?
I never got to see them, because they never made it past my ISP.
So, a request: Could the overseers either install more effective
spam protection for the list as a whole (preferred)
Heh, if only it were that easy! Spam filtering was and is distinct
from mailing list processing, and as you know it's a constant arms
race. We're working hard to make the new installation of spamassassin
as discriminating as possible. We're also working on the workflow to
clean the web archives of spam that got through.
That makes it even less likely that I will be able to provide you with
a sample, unfortunately.
Maybe it would be better just to look at the logfiles? You will
probably see a
550 5.7.1 Refused by local policy. No SPAM please!
or similar there.
or relax the limit on bounces?
OK, there are a couple of settings over at:
https://gcc.gnu.org/mailman/admin/gcc/bounce
that law and we can think about, but I'd like
to see the messages in question to figure out what happened.
Maybe it is possible to do it like the old mail system did:
If there were too many bounces, it sent a probe, if that didn't
bounce, nothing more happened.
That worked OK, the current system does not.
Regards
Thomas
