Re: [silk] Spammer attack

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

  
  
  

It is trivially broken but well, let me enable it when I have some time 



--srs

  




On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:38 PM +0530, "Hari Selvarajan" 
 wrote:










> Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that runs
> silklist. I am getting ~50 new member requests per day which I am manually
> deleting. FML.
> 

Apparently[1] mailman, from around version 2.1.26, has Google reCAPTCHA 
support. Is enabling that an option? 

— Hari

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~dsieborger/mailman/recaptcha/+merge/336782 

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

[Hari Selvarajan]

> Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that runs
> silklist. I am getting ~50 new member requests per day which I am manually
> deleting. FML.
> 

Apparently[1] mailman, from around version 2.1.26, has Google reCAPTCHA 
support. Is enabling that an option? 

— Hari

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~dsieborger/mailman/recaptcha/+merge/336782 

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

[Tomasz Rola]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 05:25:32AM -0700, Thaths wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 8:57 PM Radhika, Y.  wrote:
> 
> > Time to go to Silk on FB, for me.
> >
> 
> Why? Are there no Russian disinformation bots there?

Well, if fake book is for communications exchange then drinking 95%
spirit is a spiritual improvement.

Whoever goes there should expect deletion of their content at random
points of time. Either by algorithm or by some /accident\... Some
words will be declared unpure. You did research whose description
involved those words. Too bad. You made a photo. Too bad. What you
mean, satire, caricature, what is that. Delete.

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Re: [silk] Spammer attack

[Tomasz Rola]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 08:34:05AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that runs
> silklist. I am getting ~50 new member requests per day which I am manually
> deleting. FML.

Udhay,

Can it be done so that mailman says: "thank you, now please go to this
page so-an-so and complete the form, please copy the string from the
subject of this email into relevant input box or else your message
will not be processed". The page sends another email to list owner,
again with said string in a subject. Now all that is still needed is
to process your inbox with a bit of willpower and a shell script. In a
simplest incarnation, the script will show the strings which happened
in "Subject" line twice.

I am pretty sure the b*ts will go away. Or rather, your work with them
will go away. Human made script beats human made b?t.

It should be relatively simple to set up in user *unfriendly*
environments, because they were engineered to help solving problems in
easy way (and provide tools for this). I have never done such thing
but I am hopeful. It should be possible even if you use
user*-*friendly solutions, but in such case I am unhopeful, all bets
are lost and I would expect much more work - unless someone already
made a solution, and it can be downloaded and used fer freeah.

Tools beat solutions, for each species who can use tools. Evolution vs
devolution.

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Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.  **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...  **
** **
** Tomasz Rola  mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

[Thaths]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 8:57 PM Radhika, Y.  wrote:

> Time to go to Silk on FB, for me.
>

Why? Are there no Russian disinformation bots there?

Thaths


> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that runs
> > silklist. I am getting ~50 new member requests per day which I am
> manually
> > deleting. FML.
> >
> > Udhay
> >
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> >
> > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
> >
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