Re: E-mail abuse report (was: Now available.)

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>]

[Jason L. Tibbitts, III]

>   I'm not sure who 'we' is in this context, since I am the owner of
>   the list in question and it's run from a machine here in Houston,
>   Texas.

I hadn't discovered that Lars had stopped using the ding@ifi.uio.no
list :-) It was still active, but forwarded to ding@gnus.org.

>   I can close the list to nonmembers rather trivially, but that gets
>   in the way of folks who post from multiple addresses (like Lars)
>   which I can cope with although it takes more of my time.

Yes.  I need to manually add an address alias and resend messages
about once a week on my Crossfire list.  It's some work, but I catch
approx. 1-2 spams a day this way.  In some ways it would be worse on
my low volume Bel Canto list, since without such a filter there'd be
more spam than content...

>   Is it worth the trouble to filter out the staggeringly huge amount
>   of one spam every few months that gets by my mountain of filters
>   and the filters at Gnus.org?  I just run, not govern; you folks
>   decide.

You are very very lucky.  Evidently, the mailing list currently isn't
widely listed (Altavista found 20 references to ding@gnus.org, 66 to
ding@ifi.uio.no and 780 to crossfire@ifi.uio.no), but my guess is that
those numbers will change.

>   I do wonder, though, if spam coming through ifi.uio.no is treated
>   any differently then spam coming directly to gnus.org?

You tell me :-)


Kjetil T.