From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A lot of Spam Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:39:45 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403220522.i2M5M7q13079@dell3.ma.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079934157 19986 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 05:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:42:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 06:42:28 2004 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 1B5ICi-000271-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:42:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5ICD-0007by-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:41:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5IBF-0007K8-JL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5IAh-00073d-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5IAB-0006mT-7m; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:39:51 -0500 Original-Received: from linux183.ma.utexas.edu (mail@linux183.ma.utexas.edu [146.6.139.172]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i2M5dkq17078; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:39:46 -0600 Original-Received: from jcorneli by linux183.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5IA5-0003tz-00; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:39:45 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <200403220522.i2M5M7q13079@dell3.ma.utexas.edu> (help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org) X-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us: You are on the way to destruction. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:17619 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17619 Who's moderating the list? Isn't it possible to restrict posts only to those subscribed to the list? I agree that spam seems to have suddenly taken over this list. I think the GNU lists have historically admitted open posting - so that people who aren't subscribed can post to the list. But several of the GNU mailing lists, including, sadly, this one, have, more or less recently, become all-but-unusable because of the quantity of spam. Everyone who uses the list could install a local spam filter (this is not as much use for people who get their mail in digest form), but it seems to me that either a spam filter or a `blowback' style (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/blowback/) test to screen out non-person-originated mail would be well worth installing on the GNU mail server at this point. With the last few day's digest summaries looking like this... 1. Re: HOWTO: using psgml for web development (Emory Smith) 2. Earn $500 to $700 per week Shopping Online! (syui@iopd.com) 3. Someone is interested in you (Alisa Hargrove) 4. Earn $500 to $700 per... (hfdko@godf.com) 5. A lot of Spam (Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos) 6. Problem with some Elisp to start NuPRL5 (Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos) 7. Re: HOWTO: using psgml for web development (Emory Smith) 8. - (?????????) 1. Fw: Americans Thieves: Are These US Marines Looting Liberating Iraqi Gold Or Fixing ............ Door. (Scientists Group) 1. BTP [Bas?n B?lteni] 17-03-2004 (Bas?n B?lteni) ) 2. What key is this? (Harter, Douglas) 3. V I C O D - I N ONLINE Dog (Vickey) 4. Get cheap via-gra (Rena Ingram) 5. Get discounted OEM software from Online Store! iub xa (Stefanie Pereira) 1. VIRUS INTERCEPTED: [0317065280281] (ddunlop@redpoint.ws) 2. ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????????? ( ???????????? ? ???????? ) 1. Brass V1c0d-n +c-^++ali+a_s+ (Dixie) 2. More efficient than via-gra (Kathleen Story) 3. Deep Islamic Thinking (Scientists Group) 4. Several modes acting strangely (Bingham, Jay) 5. Week-en--d- Pill +Co-mpa*rison (Karan) 6. More efficient than via-gra (Desiree C. Lawrence) 7. Virus Found in message "fake" (Chris Hamer) ... it really seems to me that something should be done to make the list usable again!