Hi Slavec, Anno domini 2020 Tue, 27 Oct 16:21:59 +0100 Sl�vek Banko via tde-users scripsit: > On Saturday 24 of October 2020 21:13:41 Michael via tde-users wrote: > > S'Okay, we all know spam exists, and any list is going to get some... > > > > I'm also pretty sure the mods of our list delete the spammer's account > > immediately. > > > > So? Please? Can we agree to just delete what does get through? > > > > Best All, > > Michael > > ____________________________________________________ > > Hi all, > > I analyzed the incoming spam from the first one that appeared. All these > cases had one thing in common: they were not sent by e-mail, but via the > Hyperkitty web interface. > > This means that the spammer made an effort for him to join the conference, > confirm the verification email for the subscription, log in to the web > interface and take advantage of the fact that with Hyperkitty it is > possible to use the mailing list in a way like a web forum. > > For this reason, the post was first processed by Mailman, who creates > emails for individual participants. Only then, these emails were processed > by the mail server, which has an integrated spam filter. Therefore, these > emails had the advantage of spam ratings, as they were created locally. > > The question is how to deal with it? Each of these emails was sent from a > different address - different participants => it will not be effective to > block a specific participants here. And since spams sent in this way are > currently very rare cases, it seems too restrictive to prevent the use of > Hyperkitty for posting to mailing lists. > > I suggest waiting to see if sending spam in this way will continue to be > negligible or increase. And decide according to how it will continue. I > believe that the necessary input effort is so large that it is unlikely to > bring the expected result for spammers. That's why I hope that spam > doesn't have to increase. > > What is your opinion? > > Cheers The same sort of spammers (same wording, diction, phrasing etc.) are active in e.g. arduino forum nad raspberrypi forum since ~ 6 months. Good thing is that the activity has been is going down in the last months, so most likeley this problem will go away in some months on its own. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...