testing an idea was spammers on this list

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Tue Apr 18 01:02:16 UTC 2017


since I can filter, wanted to try something.
ignore this, if I am correct, will share.
Kare


On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, Rob Harris wrote:

> Suspect they got malware and are quite unaware what's happening in their
> name. I know this happens. Hope it isn't me,  most these threads go over my
> head, so contribute next to nothing.
>
> BobH.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> To: <jheim at math.wisc.edu>; "Linux for blind general discussion"
> <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 2:33 AM
> Subject: Re: spammers on this list
>
>
> In fact it is hard to paint just what they are doing.
> I posted in this thread once.
> However, and keeping the same subject line, I get an e-mail from
> this person with each post it seems... in this thread I mean.
> Kare
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, John G. Heim wrote:
>
>> But this particular spammer isn't harvesting email addresses from the
>> archive.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/14/2017 10:31 PM, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
>>>  Considering that the list archives can be viewed by anyone at
>>>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/
>>>  and be downloaded as gzipped plain text files that include the e-mail
>>>  address from which each message was sent, I think it's fair to say
>>>  there's next to nothing any list moderators could do to address spam,
>>>  and unless an alternative list either lacks public archives or has
>>>  archives that strip e-mail addresses from the from fields, it will be
>>>  just as vulnerable to spambots.
>>>
>>
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