From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA13956; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:01:50 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14152 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:01:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i01K1mv06719 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:01:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from wanadoo.fr (AStrasbourg-207-1-5-174.w81-53.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.53.61.174]) by mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 393AF5000356 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:01:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FF47D39.4030404@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:04:09 +0100 From: Matthieu BRUCHER User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: SPAM via CAMl-List?! References: <20040101174711.GA1570@first.in-berlin.de> <20040101194810.GA26219@swordfish> In-Reply-To: <20040101194810.GA26219@swordfish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; matthieu:01 matthieu:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 gushee:01 2004:99 in-berlin:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 nntp:01 gmane:01 gmane:01 tagging:01 diverted:99 exploiting:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Matt Gushee wrote: >On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:27:00PM +0000, Alan Post wrote: > > >>In article <20040101174711.GA1570@first.in-berlin.de>, Oliver Bandel wrote: >> >> >>>do you also get a lot of spam via the CAML-LIST? >>> >>> >>I suggest reading the list via nntp://news.gmane.org >> >>The gmane.org mail/news gateway does spam tagging, along with the fun >>archiving/search/webnews stuff. >> >> > >Yes, but the severity of the current problem is new. Up until maybe two >weeks ago, I would get perhaps one spam message from Caml-list every >week or two. Now it's 2-3 dozen a day. If this keeps up, I (like many >other list members, no doubt) can try to teach SpamAssassin to filter >out spam from Caml-list, but if there are false positives they will be >diverted to my spam folder, which I only review every 2 or 3 weeks. > >So I'd rather not have to do that. The fact that this is a new problem, >and is not occurring on other lists I subscribe to, suggests that the >spammers are exploiting a weakness in the way this list is administered. >I hope the list maintainers will look into it. > > > +1 I agree... BTW, Mozilla Spam Flter functions very well and it learns very fast. A solution could be to accept mails from senders that are on the mailing list only, another useful behaviour could be to have a reply-to adress equal to the mailing list adress... Miles ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners