From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spam through the newsgroup gateway Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:48:57 +0200 Message-ID: <8636stsqfa.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540500483 20402 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2018 20:48:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:48:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 22:47:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmXs-000583-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:47:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmZy-0007Mh-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmZ3-0007LX-Gd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmYz-00038I-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56021 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmYz-000380-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmWq-0003wQ-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:46:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:TTe4Yr+eeBEFRZ0foyaankh2xSk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118408 Archived-At: 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