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Brion Vibber (brion@pobox.com) [050518 08:01]:
Due to a very high volume of spam hitting this list in the last couple days (several hundred), I've changed the list configuration to automatically discard posts from addresses not subscribed to the list instead of holding them in the moderation queue.
Yeah, WTF is happening? wikien-l is getting a new spam literally every minute or two. Is there a new spammer in town with our address?
- d.
David Gerard wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc:
Brion Vibber (brion@pobox.com) [050518 08:01]:
Due to a very high volume of spam hitting this list in the last couple days (several hundred), I've changed the list configuration to automatically discard posts from addresses not subscribed to the list instead of holding them in the moderation queue.
Yeah, WTF is happening? wikien-l is getting a new spam literally every minute or two. Is there a new spammer in town with our address?
i believe there's a new virus around which exists only to spam some kind of right-wing propaganda (in German), which may account for some of it.
- d.
kate.
Kate Turner (keturner@livejournal.com) [050520 00:39]:
David Gerard wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc:
Yeah, WTF is happening? wikien-l is getting a new spam literally every minute or two. Is there a new spammer in town with our address?
i believe there's a new virus around which exists only to spam some kind of right-wing propaganda (in German), which may account for some of it.
Looking through the moderation queue (before I set unsubscribed addresses on wikien-l as well to reject instead of moderate), it was indeed that stuff.
- d.
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