This useless thread generated more traffic than I've seen in spam in the
last couple of months. (And if you add the traffic from the last couple
of times we had this *same discussion*...)
I'd like to propose that we blacklist people who propose solutions to
deal with non-existant spam problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) wrote on 25.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:43:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
I have a comment: NO WAY IN HELL. The day that we start rejecting DUL
posts is the day that several people leave the project, me included. How
many
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Bader) wrote on 24.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Just tested that. ssh to master, telnet to localhost smtp, it was quite
willing to relay mail with a non-local envelope. (And left enough clues in
the header to track who did that just in case it ever becomes necessary.)
Here is a (somewhat?) constructive idea regarding the spam.
i would like to point everyone to sugarplum:
(http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/)
quote from README file:
sugarplum is a spam-bot database poisoner utility. The
specific usage of a spam poisoner is to provide a spammer's email
spider with
Here is a (somewhat?) constructive idea regarding the spam.
i would like to point everyone to sugarplum:
(http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/)
quote from README file:
[snip]ac
I'd suggest putting a lot of IFRAME tag which include the document generated
by sugerplum which occuplies only a minimal
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:10:29PM +0200, Gil Bahat wrote:
Here is a (somewhat?) constructive idea regarding the spam.
i would like to point everyone to sugarplum:
(http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/)
quote from README file:
Cool program! Might be a good way to discourage spammers
from
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:43:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
I have a comment: NO WAY IN HELL. The day that we start rejecting DUL
posts is the day that several people leave the project, me included. How
many ISPs these days route mail worth a damn?
:-) Joseph you make it too easy.
You
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:53:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
It has been said in a related thread on a mailing list that shall not be
named :) that making a DNS lookup for hosts carrying the blacklists on each
delivery would slow it down. It has also been said that this isn't hard to
work
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:13:36PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
Spam to the Debian mailing lists tends to be especially annoying since
the spammers always seem to hit each and every mailing list (or at
least, a large number of them), which makes each spam much more
noticable.
Oh yeah. If only
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:38:50PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
Oh yeah. If only there was some way of automatic killing of such spams, sent
to more than X (say, 5) mailing lists... something that would remember the
last X-1 mails from the same domain name (or whatever) and kill off the
On 12/24/2000 13:13, Mark Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spam to the Debian mailing lists tends to be especially annoying since
the spammers always seem to hit each and every mailing list (or at
least, a large number of them), which makes each spam much more
noticable.
The GIMP-user and
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
No one should be allowed to post to ANY mail list that is NOT subscribed to
that list!
It's pretty common place on these lists, so I don't think we're about
to stop it. Sorry.
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL,
On 12/23/2000 15:10, Hamish Moffatt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
I think that would be a good compromise position. Any chance we can
implement that at least? It would go a long way to accomplish both goals:
Quoting Carl B. Constantine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
flame war Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists...
:-) /flame war
disallow spammers
allow posts from outside those subscribed
We already allow spammers:
The Debian Linux mailing lists accept commercial advertising for
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is
considered suspicious'.
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but rather just gets
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:02:34PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
I think that would be a good compromise position. Any chance we can
implement that at least? It would go a long way to accomplish both
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that
have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other
such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing
anything for debian development.
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Carl B. Constantine ([EMAIL
Carl B. Constantine wrote:
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that
have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other
such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing
anything for debian development.
This is
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to
that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel
and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think
trademark domains is doing anything for debian
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to
that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel
and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark
domains is doing anything for debian
On 12/22/2000 19:44, Miles Bader at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, lets not.
Right now I'm subscribed to debian-devel, but often in the past I've
read it occasionally in the archives, and sent mail as I thought
appropriate. I know there are other people who do this.
The fact is that the
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yo ppl, it's not hard to archive a closed list, most list software supports
archive directly. Sheesh! You make it sound like it's the end of the world
for crying out loud. Give me a break!
I was complaining about not being able to post to the list
This discussion is being taken off list to avoid yet another flame war (not
my intention to start another flamewar).
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