The oversight-l list is for zapping personally dangerous information from en:wp. This means the list needs to be wide-open and unfiltered for quick response.
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
- d.
On 5/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The oversight-l list is for zapping personally dangerous information from en:wp. This means the list needs to be wide-open and unfiltered for quick response.
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
Um, isn't this exactly what can be done in http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/contentfilter (for attachments) and http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/privacy/spam (for spam in the body of the mail)?
But maybe I misunderstand you.
Michael
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On 10/05/07, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
Um, isn't this exactly what can be done in http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/contentfilter (for attachments) and http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/privacy/spam (for spam in the body of the mail)? But maybe I misunderstand you.
Uh, buh. That is indeed *exactly* what I'm after. I didn't realise that was there. Thank you :-)
- d.
On 10/05/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/05/07, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/contentfilter (for attachments) and http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/oversight-l/privacy/spam (for spam in the body of the mail)?
Uh, buh. That is indeed *exactly* what I'm after. I didn't realise that was there. Thank you :-)
This looks useful:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/owners/regexp.html http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/faqs/mailman.spam.html
I assume I would therefore spot "X-Spam-Score: 7.1 (+++++++)" with "^X-Spam-Score:.*+++++++".
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
- d.
If the email has an attachment, you should better return it to sender than ignoring it, which would be against the nature of STMP protocol, just because this is a simple user of incredimail.
Platonides wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
If the email has an attachment, you should better return it to sender than ignoring it, which would be against the nature of STMP protocol, just because this is a simple user of incredimail.
Speaking with my ISP hat on, please do not "return it to sender". The "From:" is probably spoofed.
The correct method is to reject the message during transmission.
William Allen Simpson wrote:
Platonides wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
That said, the spam levels are going up ... Would it at least be feasible to discard any email with the word "anatrim" or with an attachment? Please?
If the email has an attachment, you should better return it to sender than ignoring it, which would be against the nature of STMP protocol, just because this is a simple user of incredimail.
Speaking with my ISP hat on, please do not "return it to sender". The "From:" is probably spoofed.
The correct method is to reject the message during transmission.
By "sender" i meant MAIL FROM (if available at the filtering stage). Spammers will be using MAIL FROM: <>
Or maybe skip mail returning if from: fails SPF... There are many options. My concern is untechnical people tryiing to arrive at a supposedly publicy available address.
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