Hello,
the spammers have eventually found out how to post to the gpc list. As far as I can see, two spams made it here: Subject "Would Like to Advertise on Your Site" (12/03) Subject "NEEDED YOUR KIND ATTENTION" (12/04)
Currently, non-subscribers can post to the gpc list if they reply "accept" to an automated message. Apparently, the spammers have found out how to use this. I see no other option than allowing only postings from list members in the future (*). Any other opinions?
I am going to leave the separate gpc-announce list in its current mode, i.e. nobody can post directly to gpc-announce, but everybody can confirm their own posting. If spammers start misusing that, we will have to change those settings, too, so that only members of gpc-announce will be allowed to confirm their posting.
(*) People with multiple addresses can still subscribe their extra addresses in "nomail" mode, so postings from those addresses will be accepted as members': If your spare address is foo@bar, email majordomo@gnu.de with the following message body:
subscribe-set gpc nomail foo@bar
Best wishes,
Anja (who wonders how long it will take until spammers start automated subscriptions to various mailing lists)