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)
Anja Gerwinski wrote:
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?
If they can be reached by such "accept" messages, it seems to me they can be identified. More and more jurisdictions of the world are passing strong anti-spam legislation (Virginia, USA, just extradited a couple of spammers, and are preparing to throw the book at them). Thus the presence of such identification seems worth more than you are losing by having the occasional annoyance.
CBFalconer wrote:
Anja Gerwinski wrote:
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?
If they can be reached by such "accept" messages, it seems to me they can be identified. [...]
Unless they use cracked accounts temporarily ...
Frank
Hi,
I wrote:
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
I changed the settings now. If your mail gets rejected unexpectedly, let me know.
CBFalconer wrote on Dec 12, 2003 at 10:22PM -0500:
If they can be reached by such "accept" messages, it seems to me they can be identified. More and more jurisdictions of the world are passing strong anti-spam legislation (Virginia, USA, just extradited a couple of spammers, and are preparing to throw the book at them). Thus the presence of such identification seems worth more than you are losing by having the occasional annoyance.
I don't have time to sue spammers, and I suppose there are not many people who have, so in my opinion it's better to get the list spam-free again.
Best wishes,
Anja
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Frank Heckenbach