First let me clarify that although I Cc'ed Squeak-dev and believe this is the best place for the conversation, I was referring to the announcements list below which is the primary list for which I am responsible, and I don't moderate the squeak-dev list although I'm sort of there in the background as the box-admins team leader.
I have not taken the time to look through the samples of the spam I received but I suspect I would find that they came from a variety of hosts and likely leveraged one of the botnets. In any case even if they all claim from a specific host blocking that host would likely be of no benefit since even on DSL and cable (not to mention dialup services) the IP assignment occasionally expires and a new one is issued.
This issue is no different from fighting spam in general and is a constant battle that many many people fight every day with good but not complete success. I for one don't feel that we should be spending time on that battle but simply do our best to 'roll with the punches' so to speak and do the simplest thing possible to communicate and continue to do what we love and do best.
I agree that for now we should simply move on but perhaps give a little thought to what might be a workable alternative if this does turn into a real problem in the future.
Ken
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:03 -0500, Rob Rothwell wrote:
+1
Any way to just block the current offender and not change to constant monitoring? This is the first time I have seen something like this in years, so maybe it just isn't that big of a deal right now...
Rob
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Joerg Beekmann joerg@deepcovelabs.com wrote: Hello Ken
Thank you for you efforts keeping the list running and no need to apologize to us for the occasional spam that does get through. Joerg -----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Ken Causey Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:05 PM To: Squeak Devel List Cc: announcements@lists.squeakfoundation.org; box-admins Subject: [squeak-dev] Apology for offensive spam on annoncements list I apologize for this coming through on the announcements mailing list. I hope everyone realizes that I did not send this. Several copies were received purportedly 'from' various community members. With the announcements list I have had a policy of moderating all messages, even those from subscribers. But in the last year or so I had begun to relaxen this somewhat by whitelisting anyone who sent messages regularly, this included myself. Clearly this was a mistake and I will now remove myself and everyone else from the whitelist and I will have to go back to moderating every single message. Again, my apologies, Ken Causey -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Lawrence Auster <ken@kencausey.com> Reply-To: ken@kencausey.com To: announcements@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [Squeak Announcements] Obama -- The Judas Goat Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:52:47 +0100 Obama -- The Judas Goat 1/25/2009 By David Duke