From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nuno Silva" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spam through the newsgroup gateway Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:30:01 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540499310 29202 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2018 20:28:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:28:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (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 22:28:26 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 1gFmEy-0007UH-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmH4-0007wc-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:30:34 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.neodome.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net VR/tONhvQVetYeDhA4K0RX3HhGKwV/NvC3U4fex8GzYLZD6NUIWfYZh2dksG5dG+9+DsGseurgMEpD2DlRG/Uw== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="e6qoFvuctuwvC78Z396Rqx5gsUGZ+gDPDsWJp8JSkP5bV1SmAJiqZEpfj9Lr5ySgHVyrRIqFP9XHGv2jz1Pq0nbg/j12RZnYfAN6Pm7rkEl8r2QlpXkc8A9SVIGNampY"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" Cancel-Lock: sha1:h9/Kk+oo4/1eP5FbFSESx9z1bmU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224277 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:118406 Archived-At: 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