Re: Please block this off-topic crap (Re: Obama -- The Judas Goat)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Someone on the Orca list mentioned something about gnome.org having no 
TXT record:

   "[ethanak moiraine ~]$ host -t txt gnome.org
    gnome.org has no TXT record"

I don't know what a TXT record is, so I'm not sure how that would help. 
 But, the user certainly seemed adamant that gnome.org should have one.

Will

Natan Yellin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2009/1/25 Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org <mailto:wbolster gnome org>>
>
>     2009-01-25 klockan 18:55 skrev Dylan McCall:
>      > Curiously, this exact same wave of spam has hit piles of open source
>      > mailing lists. The openmoko lists are seeing the same problem, for
>      > example. Maybe we should join forces and ping the perps to
>     insanity :b
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Here's my take on this.
>
>     Both Gnome and OpenMoko use Mailman for their mailing lists, which means
>     that a simple search query like this:
>
>      http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Below+is+a+listing+of+all+the+public+mailing+lists%22
>
>     ...will bring up lists of mailing lists, out of which the mailing list
>     addresses can be easily extracted.
>
> Good point.
>
> We might be able to block the spam using Bad Behavior's IP blacklists. 
> Asides from that, I can't think of anything else.
>
>     Since these pages link to the mailing
>     list archives as well, it's not that hard to find an e-mail address
>     that is
>     likely to be a member of the mailing list, and hence mails coming
>     from that
>     address do not hit the moderation queue and are let through immediately.
>     Perhaps the spam bots even prefer mail addresses ending with the
>     same top
>     level domain as the mailing list address (this happened to Gnome at
>     least),
>     which even further reduces the chances that the mail will end up in the
>     moderation queue.
>
>
>     By the way, in the past few weeks, I already discarded a few
>     messages like
>     these from the evince-list moderation queue (I'm moderating that
>     list). From
>     what I remember the From header did not contain a @gnome.org
>     <http://gnome.org> address, but
>     I'm not hundred percent sure about this.
>
>        — Wouter
>
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