[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

[Johnny Hughes]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Matt Shields wrote:
>>> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list.
>> Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the
>> "user" was subscribed.
>>
> 
> Clearly you should assign an infinite number of monkeys to the problem!
> 
> Is kinda weird though; I've also seen posts from what I assume to be
> the same spam source (and around the exact same time) on the
> dell linux-poweredge list.
> 
> They'll unsubscribe the offenders and the problem will go away.  This
> thing pops up from time to time.
> 

This is happening in other places too, with this specific user/mail.

We are putting things in place to block / mod these users, but we
already have a positive email required and e-mail activation based on a
link to the address.

We also have rbl list blocking on the server ... and spam scoring.

There is not much else we can do except block the offenders when they
happen.

OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all
posts :-D

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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