[Elecraft] (OT} Spam influx

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Thread closed in the interest of keeping list volume under control. 
Please do not discuss spam on the list - It only serves to cause further 
interference to the normal threads of discussion..

The list server at qth.net already has a lot of anti-spam filtering, but 
when a spammer uses a legit subscribed address for a poster, it can 
sometimes slip through.

Please contact the moderator if you have further concerns.

73,

Eric
Lost moderator ---
www.elecraft.com

On 11/13/2012 9:43 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
> That won't accomplish anything other than to make a lot more work for
> the Elecraft guys.  It doesn't cost the spammers the slightest
> measurable bit extra ... in terms of money, time, or effort ... to send
> messages to a dead end once they have the address.  The only thing that
> it does is prevent them from being able to represent the address to
> their reprehensible clients as a "premium" one ... i.e., vulnerable.
>
> Besides, at least some of these spam emails are the result of some list
> user's address book being compromised, and there's nothing to prevent
> that happening to multiple users over and over again. Putting the list
> on moderate status might make things nicer for us, but it doesn't make
> the spammers go away ... ever.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 11/13/2012 9:31 AM, Alan Jump wrote:
>> With the spate of spam messages, I'd like to humbly suggest that the
>> list owner switch the list to Moderated status for a time...at least,
>> long enough for the spammers to get tired of their messages not getting out.
>>
>
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