[ofa-general] Spam on mailing list general at openib.org

[Pawel Dziekonski]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 at 10:56:32AM -0400, Dan Noe wrote:
> On 3/27/2008 10:46, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
>> I'm getting more than a little sick of the spam that's coming in through
>> the old mail alias on openib.org. It has increased greatly in the past 
>> week.
>> Can we either tighten up the protections there, or cut it off? In fact, 
>> does
>> it make sense to move the entire list to vger, as is the norm with the 
>> other
>> mainline kernel projects?
>
> This list accounts for about 10% of the total spam I receive (which is a 
> lot) and there has been a general uptick in spam since the beginning of the 
> week.  I think there is a new Windows virus or botnet in the wild since 
> most of it is coming from residential ISPs.
>
> Spamprobe catches it, but I still need to browse that daily to make sure 
> there are no false positives.  I would vote for tightening the protections 
> here.

Hi,

the problem is that anybody can write to the list. this has
advantages, but allows spam to come. so just close access to
registered people?

cheers, P
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Pawel Dziekonski <pawel.dziekonski at wcss.pl>
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