From: "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spam through the newsgroup gateway
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:30:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pqt949$ldr$1@news.albasani.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2742.1540494841.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2018-10-25, Bob Proulx 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.
--
Nuno Silva
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-25 20:30 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 ` Nuno Silva [this message]
2018-10-25 20:41 ` Spam through the newsgroup gateway 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
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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