gyoza on 22 Mar 2005 14:52:58 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] list spam 

Michael C. Toren wrote:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:50:24PM +0800, ?? ?? wrote:


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Interesting -- the From: address (zhou140@yahoo.com.cn) of the message
quoted above subscribed to PLUG this morning just a few minutes before
the post, apparently for the sole purpose of spamming.  I considered the
possibility that this was a legitimate message, however that seems rather
unlikely given the yahoo.com.cn return address and the Chinese IP address.

Mar 22 08:44:34 2005 (24076) plug: pending Li Zhou <zhou140@yahoo.com.cn>  219.139.141.196
Mar 22 08:45:32 2005 (24247) plug: new "zhou140@yahoo.com.cn" <Li Zhou>, via web confirmation
Mar 22 08:50:36 2005 (22951) post to plug from zhou140@yahoo.com.cn, size=2361, message-id=<20050322135024.45538.qmail@web15609.mail.cnb.yahoo.com>, success

If this happens repeatedly, perhaps we'll need to moderate posts from new
subscribers for a period of time, although limitations of mailman may make
that a difficult policy to implement.



I just had a short discussion with said subscriber. I think this one is alright. I informed the person that the post might be taken negatively and that contacting the list owners first about such a post is a good idea.

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