Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 21 April 2017 at 03:11, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/20/17, Ben Finney wrote: > > Patrick Bartek writes: > > > >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > >> wrote: > >> > >> > fc: > >> > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? > >> > > >> > Because this exclu

Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-21 Thread Dan Norton
On 04/20/2017 05:52 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: fc: Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all o

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:52:39PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > > > fc: > > > > > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? > > > > You have no idea *how much*

Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/20/17, Ben Finney wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >> > fc: >> > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? >> > >> > Because this excludes use cases that are deemed valid by the list >> > masters. >> >> Like

Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > > > fc: > > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? > > > > Because this excludes use cases that are deemed valid by the list > > masters. > > Like what? I can't speak for the list masters,

Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joel Rees writes: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >> >>> fc: >>> > >>> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >>> >>> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of t

Re: Spam on Debian lists

2017-04-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Patrick Bartek writes: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >> masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all o

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >> masters. But it's n

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > fc: > > > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? > > You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list > masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 > Debian lists¹ wit

Re: Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 20 April 2017 at 21:40, Jochen Spieker wrote: > fc: > > > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? > > You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list > masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 Debian > lists¹ with thousan

Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

2017-04-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
fc: > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 Debian lists¹ with thousands of posts each day. > I see these types of things come throug

Spam on Debian lists

2010-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Dear debian-user readers, Because Debian has a policy of open lists (posting allowed without subscribing) it may happen that the occasional spam will pass the *excellent* filters. In such cases, please: - do not reply to the spam message, it makes it impossible to clean the archives afterwar

Re: debian list security; mh question (was Re: spam on debian lists (Re : Program Submission))

1999-08-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Samuel" == Samuel R Scarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Samuel> 2) the fact that no '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is subscribed to Samuel> the list? You are not required to be subscribe to post to the list. It is more trouble than it is worth - I am on three such lists. Ciao, Martin

Re: spam on debian lists (Re: Program Submission)

1999-08-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
I France it will be no problem, Everybody know the price for spaming ist 1000 UD$ and if I send him a Lawer, he has no chance and MUST pay. I think, Debian MUST do that TOO Webmistress Michelle Michelle's Internet Service Strasbourg - France At 02:24 17.06.1999 -0300, you wrote >

debian list security; mh question (was Re: spam on debian lists (Re : Program Submission))

1999-08-11 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
Oops -- that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was me (Samuel Scarano) -- there's no such thing as tumbolia.debian.org -- I'm surprised the list server accepted that! What happened was, I sent the message using mh (from my laptop, which is (and was) connected via the t1 we have at my job), which tries to send ma

spam on debian lists (Re: Program Submission)

1999-08-11 Thread sam
What's the deal with spam? I mean, on the mailing list signup page, there's a message about an automatic $1000 fee for spam; does SPI ever actually collect on this? In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [blah,blah,blah] >as it is not our intention to spam but to let individuals know about >ad