Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert
Johnny Hughes wrote: OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes Besides that obvious question, moderation would mean an end to the quick replies that we enjoy now. Regards, Robert __

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Robert - elists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer > to read and release all > > posts :-D > > > > Thanks, > > Johnny Hughes > > I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their > keyboards!!! > > E ahem, I meant hands... > > :-) > > ( l

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread James D. Parra
>Please, no more GOD stuff. > illicit mails, that include SPAM :-) > > So Admins GOD WORK! > > /Mats > > I believe he meant to type 'GOOD WORK'. No big deal. ~James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Dennis McLeod
Please, no more GOD stuff. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MatsK > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:18 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam? &g

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:18:08 +0100 MatsK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > >> Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text > >> in them so its harder to script is ? > >> > >> /Mats > > > > That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Bill Campbell wrote: > We have Mailman configured to check with spamassassin, sending messages > with sufficiently high scores to the moderator(s) for approval and > automatically discarding anything with a score > 20. Thus anything with > scores between our required_score of 5 and 20 is held for

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread MatsK
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them so its harder to script is ? /Mats That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was being automated I guess. Your ríght about that, but it's the automated scripts that is harde

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Lance Davis
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: While this isn't perfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I approved accidentally :-). I think it should be noted that this is probably the first time I've seen a spam

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Lance Davis
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the "user" was subscribed. We have Mailma

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> While this isn't perfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through > to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I > approved accidentally :-). I think it should be noted that this is probably the first time I've seen a spam on the centos list that I can remember.

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >Matt Shields wrote: >> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing >> list. > >Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the >"user" was subscribed. We have Mailman configured to check with spamassass

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John Hinton wrote: > I guess the big advantage to them on list is the archive now contains their > post and if there was a URL, a link from the CentOS archive, pretty well > positioned by Google and the likes, now points to their site possibly > moving them up on the search engines. It's actuall

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread John Hinton
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the "user" was subscribed.

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Robert - elists
> > OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all > posts :-D > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!! E ahem, I meant hands... :-) ( like they both do not have enough to do already ;-> ) - rh

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them > so its harder to script is ? > > /Mats That wouldn't help much in this case. Unless the subscription was being automated I guess. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread MatsK
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Matt Shields wrote: Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the "user" was subscri

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Matt Shields wrote: >>> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing >>> list. >> Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the >> "user" was subscribed. >>

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: > > Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing > > list. > > Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the > "user" was subscribed. > Clearly you should ass

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matt Shields wrote: > Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing > list. Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the "user" was subscribed. Ralph pgpHczKi3cRbi.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ C