Re: Meta-issue: recent spam surge

[Derek Robert Price]

"Lars J. Aas" wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:03:45AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> :
> :  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake/2001-September/date.html
> :
> :  What a sad sight: fully one third of all list messages for this month
> :  are spam. Other lists at gnu.org (and elsewhere) have been hit just
> :  the same.
> :
> :  Is anyone at gnu.org going to do something about this?
> :
> :  If the list software supports regexps, it's as simple as filtering on
> :
> :   /^\tcharset="?ks_c_5601-1987"?/
>
> You can only filter on headers, and this one comes in the body, and
> only for some of them.  Some are text/html with euc-kr charsets IIRC.
>
> I've installed an experimental filter on the autoconf list which I will
> monitor for the next couple of days.  If it's successful, adding it to
> automake list should be a piece of cake.

If the filter works, then could you add it to the info-cvs and bug-cvs
lists as well?

Derek