From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spam through the newsgroup gateway
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:48:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8636stsqfa.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pqt949$ldr$1@news.albasani.net
Nuno Silva wrote:
>> Since we have been talking about the
>> newsgroup gateway of late... The recent spam
>> messages just now to the mailing list came
>> through the newsgroup and not the mailing
>> list. There isn't a way to filter it from
>> the mailing list since it is done upstream
>> by Mailman outside of our control. It is an
>> example of a peeve of mine with the way
>> Mailman handles email. When spam enters the
>> newsgroup it is gateway'd directly to the
>> mailing list bypassing spam filtering. If it
>> went through the spam filtering the same as
>> other mail then I would be okay with it.
>> The only direct way to stop it is to block
>> messages from the gateway. And obviously we
>> have already talked about why that isn't
>> desired. Public Service Announcement: Please
>> do not reply to spam. If a valid message is
>> in reply to a spam message then it refers to
>> it and in a sense validates it. To talk
>> about spam please use an independent thread
>> so as not to validate the original spam.
>
> Here I only saw the two recent spam messages in
> the Gmane group. They did not appear in the
> USENET group.
I have not seen any spam in the Gmane
group either?
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-25 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.2742.1540494841.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-25 20:30 ` Spam through the newsgroup gateway Nuno Silva
2018-10-25 20:41 ` Bob Proulx
2018-10-25 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-25 22:06 ` Van L
2018-10-26 10:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-25 20:48 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-10-25 19:13 Bob Proulx
2018-10-27 17:01 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-10 22:17 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.3846.1541888586.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-11-16 3:38 ` Rusi
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