From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: 6 postings today -- *all* spam Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:26:13 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5bfmfa.r5.ln@acm.acm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025425615 13561 127.0.0.1 (30 Jun 2002 08:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Oa2o-0003Wc-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:26:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Oa3E-00033p-00; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 04:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from marvin.muc.de ([193.149.48.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Oa1V-0002yZ-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 04:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 62985 invoked by uid 8); 30 Jun 2002 08:25:30 -0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1025425530 62981 193.149.49.134 (30 Jun 2002 08:25:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 2002 08:25:30 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2348 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2348 Joe Fineman wrote on Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:41:14 GMT: > What on earth is going on? None of the other gnu newsgroups I > subscribe to are suffering from this infestation. Is the word "bug" > attracting it? Why? Of the last hundred threads I've seen on gnu.emacs.bug, 74 have been utterly off-topic. Of those, 45 have been in non-Latin scripts, mainly (or exclusively) korean such as ks_c_5601-1987. They seem to originate from anonymous addresses. Filtering out these posts would increase the signal/noise ratio from about 25% to about 50%. Does anybody have any hypothesis as to the motivation of these spammers? Surely the number of people in gnu.emacs.bug who can read these languages is, with the greatest of respect to them, not large, and the number who would actually respond to any these things is vanishingly small. Is there anybody here fluent in any of these languages who can tell us what these unwanted posts are saying? Incidentally, can anybody explain to me what scam all these ostensible corrupt Nigerian officials are up to? Each of these postings carries an "approved" header. Is this header genuinely added by GNU, or is it forged? > --- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").