Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the user was subscribed. Clearly you

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the user was subscribed. Ralph pgpHczKi3cRbi.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Matt Shields
Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread MatsK
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the user was

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them so its harder to script is ? /Mats That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was being automated I guess. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert - elists
OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!! E ahem, I meant hands... :-) ( like they both do not have enough to do already ;- ) - rh

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John Hinton wrote: I guess the big advantage to them on list is the archive now contains their post and if there was a URL, a link from the CentOS archive, pretty well positioned by Google and the likes, now points to their site possibly moving them up on the search engines. It's actually a

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Lance Davis
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: While this isn't perfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I approved accidentally :-). I think it should be noted that this is probably the first time I've seen a spam

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
While this isn't perfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I approved accidentally :-). I think it should be noted that this is probably the first time I've seen a spam on the centos list that I can remember.

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Lance Davis
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the user was subscribed. We have Mailman

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Bill Campbell wrote: We have Mailman configured to check with spamassassin, sending messages with sufficiently high scores to the moderator(s) for approval and automatically discarding anything with a score 20. Thus anything with scores between our required_score of 5 and 20 is held for

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread MatsK
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them so its harder to script is ? /Mats That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was being automated I guess. Your ríght about that, but it's the automated scripts that is

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the user was subscribed. We have Mailman configured to check with spamassassin,

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:18:08 +0100 MatsK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them so its harder to script is ? /Mats That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was being automated

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread James D. Parra
Please, no more GOD stuff. illicit mails, that include SPAM :-) So Admins GOD WORK! /Mats I believe he meant to type 'GOOD WORK'. No big deal. ~James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Dennis McLeod
Please, no more GOD stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MatsK Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:18 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam? Ray Van Dolson wrote: Maybee

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Robert - elists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!! E ahem, I meant hands... :-) ( like they both do not

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert
Johnny Hughes wrote: snip OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes Besides that obvious question, moderation would mean an end to the quick replies that we enjoy now. Regards, Robert