Spam

[Øivind Hoel]

On 5/9/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 13:12 -0700, Scott wrote:
> > Is it just me, or does it seem that Spam is getting worse by the day on
> > this the Ubuntu mailing lists?
>
> The only Ubuntu list that has spam, is the ubuntu-users list, because
> people can post to it from the web forum. The forum is hit by spam,
> apparently not filtered, and regularly, people reply to it from the web
> forum, and that makes the spam actually land in the mailing list ! :-/
> But although it drives me nuts, there is only say one such mail per day
> in average, so it's not (yet) the end of the world.
> I don't get any spam on any of the other ubuntu mailing lists (and I
> don't have any spam filter running on my machine, nor does my ISP,
> judging by the amount of spam I get in my inbox ! :-/ )

My spam folder here on gmail currently contains 871 items... so I'm
hit hard by spam, but I haven't seen a single one creep up into any of
my labels or my inbox. They seem to have a fantastic filter in
place... I'd advise the OP to fetch a gmail account to avoid spam ;-)