MODERATE spam - Externals

5 years ago by Joe Watkins — view source

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Hi all,

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

Cheers
Joe

5 years ago by Nikita Popov — view source

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Hi all,

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

Cheers
Joe

Can someone from systems@ please take a look at this? The last set of
security releases did not make it to php-announce, because nobody approves
messages to this list anymore.

Nikita

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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Who can we add as moderators?

Sascha

Nikita Popov nikita.ppv@gmail.com hat am 3. September 2019 um 16:58 geschrieben:

    > > Hi all,

    Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
    mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
    a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

    Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

    Cheers
    Joe

>

Can someone from systems@ please take a look at this? The last set of security releases did not make it to php-announce, because nobody approves messages to this list anymore.

Nikita

5 years ago by Christoph M. Becker — view source

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Who can we add as moderators?

It's not about additional moderators, but rather that there has been so
much spam, that it was infeasible to check all of it for acceptable
announcements.

The main problem, though, seems that the moderation mails are no longer
sent (I received the last one on 2019-06-04).

Christoph

Sascha

Nikita Popov nikita.ppv@gmail.com hat am 3. September 2019 um 16:58 geschrieben:

    > > Hi all,

    Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
    mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
    a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

    Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

    Cheers
    Joe

>

Can someone from systems@ please take a look at this? The last set of security releases did not make it to php-announce, because nobody approves messages to this list anymore.

Nikita

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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When sending an email to php-announce@ ..

ezmlm-store:_info:_qp_26188/ezmlm-clean:_info:_qp_26206/Old_format_or_corrupted_index.Run_ezmlm-idx!(#5.3.0)/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26212/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26219/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26220/did_0+0+10/

I ran ezmlm-idx, looks better now.

Regarding delivery attempts to:

cmbecker69@gmx.de ->

failure: 212.227.17.5_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554-Transaction_failed/554-Reject_due_to_policy_restrictions./554_For_explanation_visit_http://postmaster.gmx.com/en/error-messages?ip=76.75.200.58&c=hd/

GMX rejects the messages from lists.php.net, possibly due to excessive spam from that IP address.

Cheers
Sascha

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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We have enabled the normal php.net spam protections for lists.php.net - this is test message 1.

Sascha

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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And this would be test message 2. Sorry about this.

Sascha

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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Looking good (test 3).

Please alert systems@php.net if you have issues sending emails to *@lists.php.net.

Sascha

5 years ago by Peter Kokot — view source

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Hello,

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 03:45, Sascha Schumann
sascha.schumann@myrasecurity.com wrote:

Looking good (test 3).

Please alert systems@php.net if you have issues sending emails to *@lists.php.net.

Sascha

--

Confirming that most spam got nicely reduced now. Thank you for
enabling spam filters. There are now only few of those spam mails
passing through but I guess reading one or two messages with pharmacy
and similar content can be ignored and deleted on the mods side.

Who can we add as moderators?

Oh, another thing. Increasing number of moderators here (on mailing
lists) doesn't help in any way. Still each moderator has the same
amount of emails to go through and the work load is not distributed
but duplicated. If we all understand this. But hopefully the relevant
emails could be approved on time anyhow.

Cheers.

Peter Kokot

5 years ago by Sascha Schumann — view source

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Confirming that most spam got nicely reduced now. Thank you for
enabling spam filters. There are now only few of those spam mails
passing through but I guess reading one or two messages with pharmacy
and similar content can be ignored and deleted on the mods side.

Thanks for the feedback.

Best
Sascha

5 years ago by Christoph M. Becker — view source

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Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

I can confirm that the spam to this mailing list has drastically (by at
least factor 10) increased since a week ago.

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

+1

cc'd systems mailing list.

Thanks,
Christoph

5 years ago by Sara Golemon — view source

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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 5:22 AM Christoph M. Becker cmbecker69@gmx.de
wrote:

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few
emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

I can confirm that the spam to this mailing list has drastically (by at
least factor 10) increased since a week ago.

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

+1

Same, I set up a (probably over-broad) gmail filter to bin those, but it's
possible I'm missing some legit ones now.

-Sara

5 years ago by M. W. Moe — view source

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Hello,

didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
frustrated individual
which didn't found anything else smarter than spams to achieve his pity
vendetta.

Did you kept the original ones?

tschüss.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 5:22 AM Christoph M. Becker cmbecker69@gmx.de
wrote:

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few
emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

I can confirm that the spam to this mailing list has drastically (by at
least factor 10) increased since a week ago.

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

+1

Same, I set up a (probably over-broad) gmail filter to bin those, but
it's
possible I'm missing some legit ones now.

-Sara

5 years ago by Sara Golemon — view source

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Hello,

didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
frustrated individual
which didn't found anything else smarter than spams to achieve his pity
vendetta.

I have a spam folder full of them. They're not "please help me" so much as
"enter this contest to win some prize".

-Sara

5 years ago by Kalle Sommer Nielsen — view source

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Den lør. 18. maj 2019 kl. 20.19 skrev M. W. Moe mo.mu.wss@gmail.com:

Hello,

didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
frustrated individual
which didn't found anything else smarter than spams to achieve his pity
vendetta.

Did you kept the original ones?

tschüss.

These mails only goes to moderators of the php-announce@ list,
typically RMs and the like moderates this list hence why only a
handful has gotten them, each moderation mail contains the original
mail and addresses to approve or reject the message.

--
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net

5 years ago by M. W. Moe — view source

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Ok thanks for the heads-up

hence, if that 's exim you might write a script that keeps alike to
quarantine.

Den lør. 18. maj 2019 kl. 20.19 skrev M. W. Moe mo.mu.wss@gmail.com:

Hello,

didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
frustrated individual
which didn't found anything else smarter than spams to achieve his pity
vendetta.

Did you kept the original ones?

tschüss.

These mails only goes to moderators of the php-announce@ list,
typically RMs and the like moderates this list hence why only a
handful has gotten them, each moderation mail contains the original
mail and addresses to approve or reject the message.

--
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net

5 years ago by Peter Kokot — view source

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Hello,

Hi all,

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

Cheers
Joe

100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...

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Peter Kokot

5 years ago by Peter Kokot — view source

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Hello,

Hello,

Hi all,

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

Cheers
Joe

100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...

--
Peter Kokot

Filter created with * from these lists going to spam directory now.
Case solved. Apologies in advance if I miss something important on
that list because this is not a list for my standards if so many spam
messages can pass through.

Regards.

--
Peter Kokot

5 years ago by Christoph M. Becker — view source

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Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...

Filter created with * from these lists going to spam directory now.
Case solved. Apologies in advance if I miss something important on
that list because this is not a list for my standards if so many spam
messages can pass through.

I've did basically the same. The only relevant exception is when RMs
send a mail to the announcement list, in which case they should watch
their spam folder.

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Christoph M. Becker