Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage

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> You didn't get a dozen or three variants of the below?

Did not get a single one. Gotta love spam filtering services. 
It would be nice if we implemented heavier filtering and drop 
such messages before they even go to the queue (see below).

> It seems to have subsided now, but I was getting them at the rate of
> maybe one a minute for some time there.  All forged in the name of
> real PG subscribers, which no doubt is how they got through the
> filters.  I imagine the list moderators will be looking at some
> unpleasantly long queues of stuff that didn't get through the filters...

Actually, it wasn't that bad. Only four messages were of that type, 
while about 90 were the usual viagra/stopsmoking/makemoneynow variety. 
I'd love to see those dropped unceremoniously before even making 
it to the queue, as the great majority of them are not 'tricky' and 
should be picked up by any spam filtering software. I used to be in 
the camp of leaning towards lenience just so we don't accidentally 
throw out a legitimate message from a non-subscriber, but at this 
point, I don't think it is worth the extra hassle. More importantly, 
the sheer volume of things to moderate probably means that it is 
more likely that a moderation error will cause a real message to be 
dropped than a stricter spam filter.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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