Re: Actually [Re: Some spam]
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, fc wrote:
> Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?
Yes, listmaster@lists.debian.org does.
> I see these types of things come through periodically -- and 1 delete
> on the front end could prevent a lot of woe.
We discard large swaths of spam. Some inevitably makes it through.
People replying to known spam doesn't help, though.
See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam for what
you can do to help
> *Even more so* -- it seems like unauthorized users can email this
> list?
>
> Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed?
Because that just adds more hoops to jump through for people with a
legitimate question, and lots of spam forges From addresses nowadays,
anyway.
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