Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> I contacted the listmasters on IRC, and they removed the messages.

Excellent! Thanks a lot.


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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Frans Pop wrote:

On Thursday 06 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:

Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net):

Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional
follow up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the
rest?

I'd say "mark it manually". Apparently, that will be more
efficient..:-)

The best for doing this efficiently is by downloading the list archive
as a mailbox, then use an efficiant MUA to tag all mails and bouonce
them to the report spam mail address.


But I for one have absolutely ZERO intention of *reviewing* so many 
identical stupid messages. That's simply a waste of time (and extremely 
stupid work too). If they make it into the review system, you'll have to 
count me out until they are gone again.


Please try contacting the listmasters again.


I contacted the listmasters on IRC, and they removed the messages.

ciao
cate


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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 06 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net):
> > Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional
> > follow up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the
> > rest?
>
> I'd say "mark it manually". Apparently, that will be more
> efficient..:-)
>
> The best for doing this efficiently is by downloading the list archive
> as a mailbox, then use an efficiant MUA to tag all mails and bouonce
> them to the report spam mail address.

But I for one have absolutely ZERO intention of *reviewing* so many 
identical stupid messages. That's simply a waste of time (and extremely 
stupid work too). If they make it into the review system, you'll have to 
count me out until they are gone again.

Please try contacting the listmasters again.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net):

> Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional follow
> up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the rest?


I'd say "mark it manually". Apparently, that will be more
efficient..:-)

The best for doing this efficiently is by downloading the list archive
as a mailbox, then use an efficiant MUA to tag all mails and bouonce
them to the report spam mail address.




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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Don Wright]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:43 +0200, Frans Pop  wrote:

>On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's
>> autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently
>> looping.
>>
>> I found these in the list archive which one can download as a mailbox.
>>
>> I haven't checked whether they are in the web archives, but that
>> should be easy to check: with them, August 2004 has about 3400 mails
>> instead of the usual 2000-2500 we were having at that time.
>
>If they are, maybe it would be best to contact the listmasters (Cord) 
>directly about them. See if then can be removed without needing five 
>people to nominate and three people to review them.
>Possibly they can filter them directly using either a filter rule or a 
>list of message IDs.


Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional follow
up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the rest?
  --Don

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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Don Wright]

Frans Pop wrote:
>Possibly they can filter them directly using either a filter rule or a 
>list of message IDs.

And the apology from the user is here:



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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Don Wright]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:43 +0200, Frans Pop  wrote:

>On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's
>> autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently
>> looping.

>If they are, maybe it would be best to contact the listmasters (Cord) 
>directly about them. See if then can be removed without needing five 
>people to nominate and three people to review them.
>Possibly they can filter them directly using either a filter rule or a 
>list of message IDs.

You probably know this already, but...
The [1]thread begins on page 5 of the August list and extends to page 7.
It seems collected in a single chain. From the headers:

Please stop sending me emails

* To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
* Subject: Please stop sending me emails
* From: "Frank Carmickle" 
* Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:11:11 -0400
* Message-id: 

There is an apology/analysis from the software author at [2].  --Don

[1] 
[2] 


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Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Frans Pop]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's
> autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently
> looping.
>
> I found these in the list archive which one can download as a mailbox.
>
> I haven't checked whether they are in the web archives, but that
> should be easy to check: with them, August 2004 has about 3400 mails
> instead of the usual 2000-2500 we were having at that time.

If they are, maybe it would be best to contact the listmasters (Cord) 
directly about them. See if then can be removed without needing five 
people to nominate and three people to review them.
Possibly they can filter them directly using either a filter rule or a 
list of message IDs.


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Spam cleaning for August 2004

[Christian Perrier]

Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's
autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently
looping.

I found these in the list archive which one can download as a mailbox.

I haven't checked whether they are in the web archives, but that
should be easy to check: with them, August 2004 has about 3400 mails
instead of the usual 2000-2500 we were having at that time.

I nominated all these "posts" as spam. For people who are in the spam
hunting process, please do so as well. 

If I get enough online time today, I'll check if they are still in the
web archive. If they are, these should be a priority taget for us.

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