[MPlayer-dev-eng] spams on mplayer-*

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:33:01PM +0900, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:44:33PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 02:31:15PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 
> > Again, fix the check, not to mention that you didn't provide a log which problem
> > you are trying to fix with your patch.
> 
> You know that you are up against devels who know what they are doing ?
> :)
> 
>  
> > P.S. It seems the email address which are used on this list are now beeing used by
> > same spammer as an source address, i get a lot of bounce mails for spam mails where
> > they use something_random_name at lists.veego.de
> 
> Known taktik. And it even looks like that they have some intelligence. I
> get spam mails with To: randomrandom at a_domain_i_own.ch to my old gmx
> mail address. The intersting thing is, i never used the gmx adress and
> this domain in combination. How they got this link is unclear.
> 
> But about the real problem: Yes it's known, if you write a mail on one
> of the mplayer lists, you will get imediatly a lot of spam. The lists
> are just mirrored on to many websites. I strongly suggest to use
> spamassassin or something similar to filter spam.

it's too late now, but it's a shame we didn't make the lists remove
sender address from the beginning... that would have cut all the spam
as well as the "spam" from users who hit reply-to-all or
reply-to-sender rather than replying to the list like they should...

rich