Am 08/19/2011 08:56 PM, schrieb TJ Frazier:
On 8/19/2011 11:57, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 08/19/2011 05:33 PM, schrieb TJ Frazier:
Hi, Marcus
On 8/19/2011 09:12, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
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E.g., I'm still managing the d...@distribution.oo.o and
mirr...@distribution.oo.o ML and 99% is spam (up to 20 per day).
Are you doing any spam-reporting? I do that for almost every piece I
receive, here at home, and get maybe one/month.
C. and I had a running dispute as to how useful it would be, to chase
down spammers on the wiki (instead of just blocking them). I didn't have
access to the email addresses, so he won; we didn't.
If I can be of any help, please feel free to email me directly. I've
never done any ML moderating or managing, but (famous last words) how
hard can it be? --/tj/
They're moderated ML, so I don't do anything with the mails. When you
reject anything then they got a reply and know it's a valid address.
I use the spam feature of Thunderbird to train the internal spam filter.
Today nearly all got into my spam folder. Here I just need to look for
false positives, otherwise delete finally. That's it.
After a while the mails get also deleted automatically in the ML system
without any reply back to the sender.
Marcus
What I'm talking about doing is to complain to the ISP. Since Tb added
the scroll feature for headers in v3, it's much easier. I look for the
*real* sender, look that up, look up the "abuse@" address, and complain.
Some ISPs are useless to complain to, but the big Western ones (Google,
Yahoo, MS, RR, AT&T, ...) are usually quite responsive and will close
the account. My hope is that they can get a bigger picture from the
complaints, and track down some of the spammers for prosecution.
Does it work? Well, with the exception of one Chinese spam-list whose
ISP is unresponsive, I never get spam from the same sender twice.
Whether my efforts are only minor harassment, or the straw that breaks a
50,000-bot network, I'll never know. But it feels good to harass the
spammers back.
Haven't thought about this as it consumes too much of my time;
especailly in these days.
Marcus
