List Spam Filtering

[Joshua Isom]

Most of the spam I've seen get through is actually obvious from the 
subject line.  I've seen more posts by people who weren't subscribed and 
asked to be cc'd than I've seen spam.  Making the list subscribers only 
would only hinder the the lucky spammers, and stop more people genuinely 
asking for help.

I have seen more spam in the past few weeks, but it's better than 
google.  For some reason, even though I don't speak anything other than 
English, email with Asian characters is not spam.

On 5/8/2013 7:26 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd )
>
> Reference:
>> From:		Aaron Seligman <aseligman at altitudedigitalpartners.com>
>> Reply-to:	aseligman at altitudedigitalpartners.com
>> Date:		Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07 +0000 (UTC)
>> Subject:	Re: Display & Video Campaigns-Inventory Needed
>> Message-id:	<1368039547.0568389241738319 at mf7.sendgrid.net>
>
>> Happy hump-day,
>>
>> We have an opportunity with an RTB partner to monetize
>>
>> INT Geo's; UK, CAN, AUS
>>
>> Video: (Pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll)
>
>
> If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only:
>    - List could silently discard such spam.
>    - Postmaster@  (& webmaster@ weeding web archives) would have less work.
>    - Less individual need to select spam phrases to copy to personal filters
>      (& less time searching WTF dialect American above meant in English ;-).
>
> Newbies would be told "subscribe before posting" in all of:
> 	/etc/motd
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> 	Automatic list bounce response.
> Only clueless, lazy, & spammers might be lost. A net gain.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>