Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread Alex ARNAUD
I can confirm I've also receive the same spammer message from the same sender. Best regards. Le 15/04/2017 à 01:07, Henry Yen a écrit : On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:52:54PM -0500, John G Heim wrote: If anyone else is tired of getting these messages from spammers every time you post to this list

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread Eric Oyen
well, there is one thing that could be done that would definitely lock out spammers. use of GpG encrypted email and just have everyone share their GpG fingerprints. At that point, most spam bots would be locked out. This wouldn't prevent them from sending to you, but it certainly would make it fa

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread Janina Sajka
I remember the list administrator being somewhat active on this list many years ago. I actually had breakfast with him while passing through Munich back in 2003. I'll try to inquiry through a mutual friend whether Hans is still alive and has simply lost interest in the list, or what the situation

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread John G. Heim
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

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
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 ha