Dramatic SPAM increase on RubyForge ML's

[Curt Hibbs]

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I recently (within the last few days) increase in the volume of emails
ending up in my spam folder. On investigation, I discovered that over 90% o=
f
my spam was sent to the "owner" of a RubyForge project mailing list (for
example, freeride-cvsevents-owner and rubyinstaller-announce-owner).

I'm assuming that all other RubyForge ML owners are experienc ing the same
thing. Since I *never* get legitimate email to these addresses, I'm going t=
o
change the "owner" of each of my MLs to a bogus email address.

Tom, will this had an adverse impact on RubyForge and, if so, is there an
alternative?

Curt

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[W]

One alternative is the email encrypter at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/emailscrambler.htm

It hacks up the email link so that bots see hard-to-parse javascript
but humans see a normal-looking link. It uses javascript to compute
the email-link dynamically.

 

[Curt Hibbs]

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One alternative is the email encrypter at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/emailscrambler.htm

It hacks up the email link so that bots see hard-to-parse javascript
but humans see a normal-looking link. It uses javascript to compute
the email-link dynamically.

There are no links. I think someone just figured out that they can harverst
a list MLs off of RubyForge and just append "-owner" to the end to get a
valid email address.

Curt

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[Tom Copeland]

I recently (within the last few days) increase in the volume of emails
ending up in my spam folder. On investigation, I discovered that over 90% of
my spam was sent to the "owner" of a RubyForge project mailing list (for
example, freeride-cvsevents-owner and rubyinstaller-announce-owner).

I'm assuming that all other RubyForge ML owners are experienc ing the same
thing. Since I *never* get legitimate email to these addresses, I'm going to
change the "owner" of each of my MLs to a bogus email address.

Tom, will this had an adverse impact on RubyForge and, if so, is there an
alternative?

Hm... I'm not sure. Let me poke around the Mailman configuration for a
bit and see if there's another way... but I think what you're suggesting
should work fine...

Yours,

Tom