List spam

[Ghodmode]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
>>
>> I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
>> of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
>> scanned before it sent to the list?
>
> I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for ages. (The
> occasional one does get through although I can't remember the last).

Maybe your email client is filtering it out for you.  This list gets A
LOT of spam.  I'm lurking on over 25 different mailing lists and most
of them don't seem to get any spam.  On the others, it's only
occasional and the list admins are quick to pounce on it.  Here, it's
like the floodgates are wide open.


> I always access it as a mailing list, and I seem to recall that
> the newsgroup feed isn't filtered the same way as the mailing list is.

The last time I brought up the topic, I offered to do the work of
filtering and banning spammers.  The consensus seemed to be that it
wasn't possible because the newsgroup IS filtered the same way as the
mailing list.


> TJG

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