Hello,

2009/1/25 Wouter Bolsterlee <[email protected]>

> 2009-01-25 klockan 18:55 skrev Dylan McCall:
> > Curiously, this exact same wave of spam has hit piles of open source
> > mailing lists. The openmoko lists are seeing the same problem, for
> > example. Maybe we should join forces and ping the perps to insanity :b
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here's my take on this.
>
> Both Gnome and OpenMoko use Mailman for their mailing lists, which means
> that a simple search query like this:
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Below+is+a+listing+of+all+the+public+mailing+lists%22
>
> ...will bring up lists of mailing lists, out of which the mailing list
> addresses can be easily extracted.

Good point.

We might be able to block the spam using Bad Behavior's IP blacklists.
Asides from that, I can't think of anything else.

Since these pages link to the mailing
> list archives as well, it's not that hard to find an e-mail address that is
> likely to be a member of the mailing list, and hence mails coming from that
> address do not hit the moderation queue and are let through immediately.
> Perhaps the spam bots even prefer mail addresses ending with the same top
> level domain as the mailing list address (this happened to Gnome at least),
> which even further reduces the chances that the mail will end up in the
> moderation queue.


> By the way, in the past few weeks, I already discarded a few messages like
> these from the evince-list moderation queue (I'm moderating that list).
> From
> what I remember the From header did not contain a @gnome.org address, but
> I'm not hundred percent sure about this.
>
>    — Wouter
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