[Gnumed-devel] SPAM on email lists, also (was Nuisance wiki hackers)

[J Busser]

At 3:42 PM +0200 10/8/05, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> Please deactivate gnumed-update for now. I am getting spam in dimensions I
> have not seen before. Does anyone know if the spammer has registered with the
> list or if they bypass regsitration and manage to spam through other means.

Horst has addded me as admin to the other mailing lists so I can now 
assist administering -update and -announce as well as -devel. 
(Thanks, Horst!)

I have updated the mailing list information page at gnumed.org
        http://www.gnumed.org/contacts/lists.html

which now informs that postings from an unsubscribed address will be rejected.

In point of fact it is only unsubscribed emails sent to gnumed-devel 
that will be rejected. These will give the poster notice of the 
rejection and to email <address@hidden> with any concerns.

I chose the above because we do not at present have any list 
dedicated to newbies and because elsewhere (on the wiki) we have 
offered for anyone with trouble installing gnumed to contact  "the 
list".

For our other lists ( -announce and -update) emails from unsubscribed 
addresses will simply be discarded.

Furthermore if it is observed there is still spam, it will be coming 
from existing or new subscribers whom the mailman package supports 
blacklisting. I can also set new subscribers to have their postings 
(by default) moderated, although I would rather first determine that 
the extra work is warranted.