On 8/25/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Probably the list admins figure that anyone who posts here is an
> advanced user type who understands how to setup spam filters that
> work.
>
> Ted
> ___
>
Or doesn't; but wants to.
I tell
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Trulsson
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:52 AM
> To: fbsd2
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
> Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
>
>
> Fo
...I will feed...
The solution to this problem is...if you don't like what you are into,
get yourself out of the situation.
Anyone who finds the information on this list non-informative enough to
complain about a few spam per week that make it through a spam filter,
then it isn't worth your time
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:17:48PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:19:06 -0700
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gary et al,
> rather than filtering on one by one basis, why not just setup your mail server
> to do the whole job for you, using spamassassin (o
>
> Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that
> the list maintainers do double the work so that you don't have
> to bother with spam filtering.
>
Actually, the list maintainer has already done something to prevent spam
harvesting -- something I didn't see mentioned in this '
On Friday 24 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> On Thursday, August 23, 2007 22:37:53 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> >> Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list
> >> maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with
> >> spam filtering
[EMAIL PROTECTED], the prominent pundit, on
Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 23:19 while half mumbling, half-witicized:
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:43:46 -0500
> From: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
> --On Thursday, August
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any spamd documentation that follows a cookbook model?
> Do A, B, C, and you're done! I've found that a couple examples
> are worth ten thousand words.
Well, there's the spamd parts of my PF tutorial[1], and I believe Dan
Lang
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:17:54 +0200
Nikola Lecic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Important philosophical notions should be used carefully, especially
> if you want to degrade something. Anyway this is off-topic here.
maybe off-topic, but I also ... wondered, and possibly took some exception to
that
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:19:06 -0700
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it
> be possible to filter on both the ^Subject: "A friend has sent you
> a Greeting card!" as well as the body? HTML or plaintext? As
> soon as I see one (usually different) spam I know there well
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 at 20:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote:
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote:
I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail
goes through a hosting provider, I (p
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 at 02:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail
goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant
part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose
i
> I get more PDF files lately and a T-O-N of the ASCII blue-
>pill ads...
>-
>Eric F Crist
>Secure Computing Networks
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Crist
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:19 PM
To: Pollywog
Cc: freebsd-questions@fr
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:00:20 -0500
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course it does, because it requires no work on your part. It's
> always "better" if you can get someone else to expend energy on your
> behalf while you sit back and reap the benefits. That's why
> unthinking people
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote:
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote:
I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam
(my mail
goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a
significant
part of it is loaded with te
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote:
> I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail
> goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant
> part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose
> it's mea
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:19:06PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> >
> > However the traplist activities are really about identifying spam
> > sending hosts. If a machine we have not exchanged mail with in recent
> > times tries t
I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail
goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant
part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose
it's meant to confuse filters. Do other folks get this too?
Dan
On
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If your user login is "smith", you could have all mailing
> > list mail sent to "smitty" and keep an open mutt or other reader
> > a click away. Spam could be easily f
--On Thursday, August 23, 2007 22:37:53 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list
maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with spam
filtering.
How does this equate to double the work for the list maint
On Thursday 23 August 2007 21:37:53 dgmm wrote:
>
> So rather than look for multiple methods to reduce the amount of incoming
> to *my* address I should just accept it all and filter it locally?
>
> That seems rather irresponsible to me, ANy method which can help stop it
> source appeaers on the
fbsd2 wrote:
It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
I have been on this list for years, I have my mail address published on
my web site and many other places. I hardly get any spam at all, I don't
use a
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >> For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
> >> explicitly the case that one do
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If your user login is "smith", you could have all mailing
> list mail sent to "smitty" and keep an open mutt or other reader
> a click away. Spam could be easily flagged ... .
Yes, there are several things you could filter on.
However
On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:20 PMAug 23, 2007, Rob wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your
computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even
if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with
it or stop
Bullshit.
Paul Schmehl wrote:
This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your computer
in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never
post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop
Bullshit. I've kept addresses spam-free for years. I usually use
On 23/08/07, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >> For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
> >> explicitly the case that o
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> "fbsd2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> > before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
>
> Spammers have their robots harvest addresses
--On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here.
This is because it i
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
> explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here.
> This is because it is the main support forum for FreeBSD, and much
> documentation exists directi
Written by Gerard on 08/23/07 10:10>>
On August 23, 2007 at 10:31AM Jonathan Shoemaker wrote:
fbsd2> Why should the subscribed members have to deal with spam
fbsd2> just for the connivance of people who are too lazy to
fbsd2> subscribe?
fbsd2> This list admin needs to get thei
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email
> addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to
> impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make
> the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful.
Maybe so. But w
"fbsd2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a number of sources,
including but not limited to web pages of all kinds and
fbsd2 wrote:
> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the
> post gets sent to the list members.
> Why can't this list do the same t
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:11 AMAug 23, 2007, fbsd2 wrote:
It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on
the list
before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address
before the
post gets sent to the list mem
> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the
> post gets sent to the list members.
> Why can't this list do the same thing so the p
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:39:43AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
> > It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> > before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> > Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the p
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:19:57 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
>> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
>> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
>> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the pos
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before
the
> post gets sent to the list me
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the
> post gets sent to the list me
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