* Fossil SCM user's discussion <fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org> [20160622 16:40]: > As anyone who has recently posted to this mailing lists probably > already knows, some miscreant has again set up a reply-spam bot. > Whenever you post to this list, the bot sends porn-spam as a private > reply. Because the reply is private, there is nothing the mailing > list can do to filter it out. > > In an effort to thwart this attack, I have converted fossil-users into > an "anonymous" list. That means that the email address of senders is > always stripped. Replies can go to the mailing list only. > > This is an experiment. If it does not work out, we'll try to come up > with an alternative remediation to the reply-spam problem.
Replying to 1. vote against (destroys community conversation) 2. get the spam (curious 3. suggest either subscription moderation and/or an identity-preserving header mangling sending the bot to a honeypot qvb -- pica _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
