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|    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              --       =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-        Tristan Miller       Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist        https://logological.org/       =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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