On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I see more often than before spam sent to various opensuse email lists, some of them repeatedly with the same from address.
That's the side effect of being more open.
Is this going to be handled?
Any of us list members is able or has to handle this at our individual end. Making the list configuration less strict makes the openSUSE lists more attective to others. Not only spammers. You might also check if your mail system provider is able to handle this on the incoming side. Please check your mail headers - they might be hidden by default - if you see a line starting with X-Spam-Score: for examlpe. Your message to the list for example had one of -3.74.
I also see several "on vacation" posts on the security list.
Such issues are caused by the individual vacation mechanisms. If I get it right the standard mechanism is to send a vacation message if the recipient was addressed via "To:". Here we might see broken MTAs or people might have replied to the individual via "To:" while the list is in "Cc:". The last does not explain why others see such mails too. More and more I expect all we see are broken or bad implemented MTAs. Sure, there are people out there even suggesting to unsubscribe from lists or disable list delivery while you're on vacation. But such a strange suggestion is yet a different topic. Cheers, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany