Re: Another flood of spam

["Lesley Binks" <lesley.binks@googlemail.com>]

On 08/01/2008, Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates?
> > ;-)
>
> I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to me directly slipping through
> my spamassassin filters, but nothing like the flood coming from
> debian-user.  I also recently started using greylisting on my mail
> server and suspect that it's helping immensely with the direct spam, but
> it can't do anything for stuff that's forwarded by a list.
>
> Does anyone happen to know whether the d-u list server uses greylisting
> (and, if not, why not)?
>

I have no idea but I wish they could block this stuff.  I have just
marked up 103 spam messages and, as a relatively new subscriber, am
wondering whether the cost is worth the benefit.

Regards

L.