Spam!

[Steve!]

Hmm, perhaps the list archive should be passworded, or protected with one of 
the 'image' type 'enter the code shown above' things...

It would seem it is a'new' trick they're using on us, some harvester is 
perhaps harvesting the email addresses and posting using legitimate users 
addresses.

Steve!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wim Lewis" <wiml at hhhh.org>
To: "SeattleWireless Development List" <dev at seattlewireless.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Spam!


>
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Casey Halverson wrote:
>> We restrict posting to members only.  I have tested this yet again,  and 
>> it still is functioning as designed.
>
> Still, there's lots of spam coming through the list. Take a look at  the 
> list archives:
>     http://www.seattlewireless.net/pipermail/dev/2006-June/date.html
>
> That page shows 53 messages between june 1st and now, 26 of which  appear 
> to be spam. So roughly half the list's traffic is currently spam.
>
> Going back through the archives, the spam cuts off abruptly before  May 
> 28. Before that date the archives are pretty much spam-free. So  either 
> the list configuration changed around then, or some spammer  developed a 
> new trick.
>
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