From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com>
Subject: RE: [Wikitech-l] spam
Anthere,
I am not getting any of the mailing list spam you are
talking about --
at least, not in noticeable amounts.
That is *totally* unfair.
One or two weeks ago, I had a sort of rebouncing mail
which filled up my mailbox with more than 100 mails in
a couple of hours. When I went to the admin page, most
had to be treated individually to remove them from the
list. Thank God Brion helped me there to clean and to
block the mail.
Today, I just caught one soon after it started.
Fortunately, all had the same sending adress so it was
quick to clean.
But how happen you admin a list and have no spam ???
I use Microsoft Outlook, and I'm behind a
corporate
firewall, so my
experience may be different from yours. But I have
configured my mail
client (MS Outlook) to move e-mail containg words
like:
[Wikitech-l]
Into a folder market Wikipedia Developers.
Is it possible then in the admin of the list, to
prevent the administrator to receive the individual
mails, just the reminders perhaps ?
Mind you, when I find more than 100 mails in my mail
box in the evening, I do not always dig for
unauthorized messages sent by careless wikipedia
editors under an unregistered email adress.
My anti-spam strategy is a poor man's version of
filtering.
I leave everything in "Inbox", except e-mail
from
known sources like:
* Business colleagues (address contains the same
domain as mine)
* Friends and relatives (added to a list, one by one)
* Wikipedia (subject line contains "Wiki")
(I hope I am in the list :-))
Aren't you the listadmin for wikitech ? Do you
sometimes have messages to authorize ?
I've heard of some sophisticated techniques
>using
"Bayesian statistics"
but I haven't tried them yet.
Is there anything I can do, as mailing list
administrator, to help get
rid of spam?
Ed Poor
Wiki-tech admin
Wikien admin
Explain to me why wikien-l and wikitech-l have no spam
perhaps :-)
And explain to the spamers I alone receive these
mails, ain't enlarge my penis, and my lips are ok, so
they can just drop the matter ?
Dunno :-(
Wikifr admin
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From: Andre Engels <engels(a)uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Wikitech-l spam
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Anthere wrote:
Is it possible to add some words to an anti-spam
list,
and to have any message containing "sex",
"enlarge",
"lips", "money", "daemon", "free business
proposition", "free flower" (if only, sigh) and such
just be automatically sent back ? ,(or just plainly
dumped)
And how are we going to discuss getting MONEY to
ENLARGE the capacity of our hardware then?
Andre Engels
Err...french people do not discuss sex and money on
the mailing list Andr�. They discuss "sexe" (not even)
and "argent". Let's not be desperate upon enlarging
the hardware :-)
Soooo...perhaps a mail subject with a bunch of
classical english words might be enough to get rid of
the worse.
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