Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?

Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Craig James wrote:
>
>> I've never gotten a single spam from the Postgres mailing list ...
>> until today.  A Chinese company selling consumer products is using
>> this list.  I have my filters set to automatically trust this list
>> because it has been so reliable until now.  It would be really, really
>> unfortunate if this list fell to the spammers.
>
> It's not been "hacked by spammers".
>
> It's a valid From address, probably coincidentally. Nothing worth
> discussing. *Definitely* not something worth discussing on the list.

Keep in mind that messages from unsubscribed addresses are held up for
moderation.  A human moderator must then reject it or approve it, and
humans make mistakes sometimes.

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