Other lists have been getting more spam in the past few weeks as well. Not
sure how much effort it's worth to crack down on this, but spam is annoying
and if you multiply the amount of wasted time on a per-person basis across
a few thousand people, that adds up quickly.

Pine

Pine


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 13:17 -0600, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> > On 2/16/17 8:07 AM, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> > > How’d it get on the list?  Isn’t it moderated?
> >  By default, list members are able to post unmoderated.  Posts from
> > non-list-members ought to be automatically discarded.  I'm not clear
> > how this particular message got through -- I don't see evidence that
> > that user has an account but I also don't trust mailman to handle
> > non-ascii characters properly.
> >
> > If we start getting more than one spam message per year, I'll
> > investigate further :)
>
> Looking at the mail headers I see
>   X-Spam-Score: 6.5 (++++++)
>   X-Spam-Report: [...] (6.5 points, 4.0 required)
> which makes me wonder why this did not end up in moderation / dropped.
>
> Also curious about DMARC and nonmembers settings under /privacy/sender.
>
> andre
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