[H-SASIG] SysAdmin SPAM

[Raymond Smith]

2010/1/15 Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:31 +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
>> 2010/1/15 Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>:
>> > I wanted to restricting access to SysAdmin to subscribers only, not
>> > sasig.  Do your comments still apply?
>>
>> I think so -- possibly more so because this address has been used in
>> the past by third parties like ITS to contact us about technical
>> issues.
>
> OK. I am a patient man.  I am happy to wait for a year to pass and raise
> the question again.
>
>>  I have not seen any spam to that list recently and cannot find
>> any messages in my spam trap either.
>
> They were sent to me, as I am the list owner.

I am a little confused because I thought anyone could post to the
sysadmin list. Is the sysadmin list actually moderated? I've just
fired off an email to see.

> Interesting point that - I could just delegate the problem.

I am happy to take ownership of the list if that will make your life better.

> Everyone else: I sent a screenshot of yesterdays spam to Raymond.
> Hopefully he will offer his opinion on whether there is a real issue, or
> I am following in the hallowed Humbug tradition of just having a whinge.

A little of both I think :-).

Life wasn't meant to be easy for mailing list administrators. I am a
moderator on a similar list and there are ways to make this more
bearable. You can configure the list to bundle up these notifications.
You can ask Mailman to drop particular email addresses (might even be
regex based, need to check). I also have a script that can be used to
detect large numbers of messages with the same subject and bulk reject
them.

Cheers,

Raymond