From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why can I not receive mail from this list Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:33:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bqwvy1k4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <000d01c63b07$8c84ef90$0200a8c0@janus> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141402602 32169 80.91.229.2 (3 Mar 2006 16:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 03 17:16:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFCww-0000cz-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:16:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFCwt-0005vJ-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEhdw-0007ZW-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEhdt-0007Yo-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:50:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEAfr-0006ba-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:38:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FDxUz-0001ht-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HZV36778; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:33:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-206-22.inter.net.il [80.230.206.22]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CUJ60135 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:33:08 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Kevin Gallagher" In-reply-to: <000d01c63b07$8c84ef90$0200a8c0@janus> (kevin.gal@verizon.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51067 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:05:02 -0600 > From: "Kevin Gallagher" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It's not a daily occurrence, but it happens often enough to be a real > problem for unmoderated mailing lists and unsuspecting readers of those > lists, nevertheless. Each time I have received one of these suspect mail > messages, I always examine the full mail header. Since signing up for the > Emacs mailing lists, every one of these fraudulent notices sent to me has > come by way of one of the Emacs mailing lists. > > All it takes is for one unsuspecting person to get burned and to report it. > Then, seeing that a number of these are being sent through FSF lists, the > site admin takes an easy path and blocks all mail from those lists and > reports his findings to one or more of the blacklist sites. To prevent this > from happening in the future, the administrator of the FSF lists may have no > alternative but to take some defensive measures and put into place a filter > that blocks the distribution of known fraudulent messages. You may not be aware of that, but the administrator of _this_ list (your truly) did take some measures. In particular, this list is now moderated, but that should be almost invisible to the subscribers (if it isn't, please tell me).