Does anyone here know the person behind autoconf-owner? I have sent email to autoconf-owner (and probably automake-owner, too) a number of times and never received a reply. The amount of spam coming from these two lists is appalling, and in fact accounted for more than 50% of all spam that made it to my inbox during the past holiday period. I'm wondering whether the list owners will take any action - header analysis shows that a lot of these mails are being received by the list server (or frontend) from dynamic ips and dialups. I cannot understand why these are not getting blocked in the first place. Here comes the really bad part, which the list owner is directly responsible for: as a significant amount of spam is rejected on our mail gateway (54 mails from the autoconf/automake lists in the past four weeks), my list membership gets suspended quite often, and I receive notification email with a confirmation string to re-enable list mails: | http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/confirm/autoconf/5eb252c164d671ce23feca1c3f7207291d343ea1 These URL's never ever work! The resulting web page informs me | Bad confirmation string | Invalid confirmation string: 5eb252c164d671ce23feca1c3f7207291d343ea1. so I need to go into my membership page and enable list mails manually. My apologies for the rant, but I believe I'm not the only one having this problem. (Please reply off-list only; Reply-To: set).
