Re: [Help-smalltalk] Spam

[LD]

Hi there,

On 11/10/2005, at 5:25 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> I'm sorry. I guess I'm more or less immunized to these problems,  
> because I get about 400 other spam messages per month which are  
> filtered by procmail rules on the gnu.org, and about 80 more that  
> pass through those filters and are taken care of by Thunderbird's  
> bayesian filter. The first spam messages from help-smalltalk that  
> reached my mailbox were a couple of wellsfargo.com phishing attempts.

Yeah, my Junk Mail filtering (Apple's Mail.app) is nabbing 99% of  
them, but I still have to check my Junk box for legit mail and find  
at that point that maybe half of the Junk Mail messages are with  
subject [Help-smalltalk]...

The point is that it's unusually high for a mailing list.

> I have since banned the wellsfargo.com account, and in the last 24  
> hours five of these mails have already been blocked by  
> lists.gnu.org;  I am now holding for moderator approval every html  
> post.

Great! :-)

> Please tell me if I should extend this to all non-members posts.

Perhaps that would be a good trial - but maybe prioritise them above  
the above (html) holdings...

Cheers.

with regards,
--

LD