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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: This message was signed/encrypted using GnuPG. > > iD8DBQFJfLYvP7QTTiUKY+sRAuTqAJ9HOWeO89oNYt58cS+b8zjNepvndQCfZKaz > in5HJHSIjQZCTx3sgfptJm8= > =e/cc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -Natan
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