[ale] *&^^$& Spammers!

[Drag0n]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> The ALE list has been getting hit daily with 150-250 unsubscriber spams
>> since it was moved to our new hosting facilities. That's all noise but
>> tolerable.
>>
>> In case anyone is wondering, no, I don't sift through the chaff looking for
>> the ham messages. I simply delete them all.
>>
>> Between Saturday around 7 pm when I last dumped the turd bucket and Sunday
>> at 10 am when I checked again, the bucket had been loaded with
>>
>> 6744 spams.
>>
>> Yep. 6k+. Mailman is choking on clearing out the crap.
>>
>> Maybe as savvy computer people ALE can tackle a social need: educating the
>> general population about intelligent use of email, how EVERY OFFER received
>> is crap, herbal viagra is fake, stock quotes are a scam, etc.
>> The spammers do this stuff because there are people who will fall prey to
>> it.
>>     
>
> Killing spammers might be more expeditious....
>
>   
Well, at the rate things are going, they may end up doing it for us.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391022,00.html

Drag0n