From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Hardy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] inundated by Swen / Gibe emails Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:41:40 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F7166D4.3090507@cyberspaceroad.com> References: <1a61f7e5.0309240025.7a1feb33@posting.google.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064396682 820 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 09:44:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 11:44:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A26CO-0003cV-01 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A26BR-00027E-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A26A9-0001Z6-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A26A7-0001XJ-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A26A7-0001Wa-47 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.162] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A26A5-00044I-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from [217.228.247.196] (helo=cyberspaceroad.com) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A26A4-0003CD-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:42:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en, en-us Original-To: Rob Thorpe In-Reply-To: <1a61f7e5.0309240025.7a1feb33@posting.google.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12758 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12758 OK, so I see two solutions to this: (1) start filtering - which I don't like since it will still download them and at 125kB a time, that's a waste of bandwidth, and I don't really want to get involved with one of those pop3-cleaner-filters. (2) somehow find a way of disguising my email address on the newsgroup without stopping the listserver from mailing me the traffic. Any suggestions as to how to do 2 would be great. Also I'd appreciate confirmation from a couple more people that they are getting this virus traffic due to the newsgroup. Thanks Adam On 09/24/2003 10:25 AM Rob Thorpe wrote: >>I am wondering why, because I thought I could just delete this email >>address and subscribe on another one, it's just this list that I use the >>address for. But will it help? Any ideas? >> >>If I don't reply again, it's because I missed the mail amongst all the >>Swen crap. > > > It might help a bit. I'm getting swen/gibe emails at the rate of > about 300/200 per day. I can only assume that this is because lots of > the spammers who've found my address on usenet have caught it. > > Does anyone know more? > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > -- GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on Linux 2.4.20 RH9