[ILUG] The ILUG signal/noise ratio is getting really bad

[Sam Johnston]

Great, these are the first mails I've received since signing up earlier today :)

Restricting posts to list members is usually fairly effective - I
guess this is not the case here? Having a mechanism for people to
register multiple addresses is sensible (I'm subscribed with one
address and replying from another today for example) but usually the
same can be achieved by subscribing multiple addresses and turning off
delivery on all bar one of them.

I'd be interested to hear what ends up in place as I'm working on the
new SAGE-IE servers at the moment and will want to keep those lists
spam free as well.

Cheers,

Sam

On 10/4/06, FRLinux <frlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Denis Hennessy <dhennessy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The spam problem has been getting (much) worse on this list of late.
> > Today, of the first 30 message threads, 24 were spam. And that's after
> > my regular spam filter has run (it's not as good at identifying spam
> > that comes from a mail server).
>
> Hello,
>
> I run several mail servers and I have seen spam on the increase
> lately. It sounds like spammers got around most filtering techniques
> such as grey-listing and normal spam filtering through spam assassin.
>
> My point is that it is just a bit too easy to blame it on the
> technical skills of the people running the list, have you thought that
> maybe, spammers are also getting cleverer in the way they are
> distributing their junk ?
>
> Even better, feel free to offer solutions.
> Steph
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