I suspect the spammers are simply harvesting the list archive web pages. Scott Russ Goodwin wrote: > I have received at least 5 obvious pieces of spam via the various OpenSRS > lists in October (I know that may not be a lot to some people, but any is > annoying) and want to request that whoever is in charge of the lists make > it so that only list members can post to the OpenSRS lists. > > Sure, they are open lists and anyone can join, but nearly all of the spam > of late has not been from people who were likely list members. (See the > forwarded message below) > > There has been discussion here in the past regarding changes/updates to the > lists and I encourage everyone get on OpenSRS' case to fix this one before > more spammers realize that the OpenSRS lists are wide open. >
