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   Message 53,281 of 53,866   
   Tristan Miller to Andreas Kohlbach   
   Re: Spam   
   31 May 21 13:45:34   
   
   From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com   
      
   Greetings.   
      
   On 30/05/2021 20.10, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:   
   > Hello Blake's 7! :-D   
   >   
   > On Sun, 30 May 2021 11:53:50 +1200 (NZST), Kerr Avon wrote:   
   >>   
   >> It seems the spam is coming from posts made via Google groups.   
   >>   
   >> For those of you reading this in Fidonet the gateway was not picking them   
   >> up as spam and pulling the posts across from NNTP in to the CBM echomail   
   >> area.   
   >>   
   >> Apologies for that. I have tried to tighten up on gateway filtering to   
   >> reduce future likelihood. That said it's a bit like playing whack a mole.   
   >   
   > Are you an admin? I don't know how you otherwise can prevent spam. Not   
   > seeing much spam anyway.   
      
      
   An admin of what?  I'm an admin of the whole Big-8 (which includes this   
   group) and even we can't do much about spam.   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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