On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:11 -0600, DaVince wrote: > Spam? > There's quite a lot of spam on this mail list. Most of the spam coming my way is trapped by my ISP's greylister, but more than half of the rest is coming from the wine-users list. Recently the spammers have started hijacking subjects from current threads and may be forging the names of legitimate list participants as well. IOW these lowlifes are forum members and/or signed up to the list: I've seen spam from both input methods. Often, the only way of spotting this spam is to check the message body for inappropriate URLs and spammy phrases. > If not (why would those links be in the post?), just install some > video converters in your distro's package manager. Plenty of choice to > convert video. SMPlayer is also a very good video player able to play > almost any video format. > Thats spam for sure. A few months back we were deluged by some weenie pushing this crap but its recently made a comeback. It would be a good idea if all forum and mail list posts were run through Spamassassin (and maybe ClamAV as well) before being added to the forum and sent to the list. The spam should be slung in the bit bucket and silently lost. A "three strikes and you're unsubscribed" trap would be a good idea too. Martin
