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Joe Watkins

7 years ago

Hi all,

Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

Cheers
Joe

Christoph Becker

7 years ago

On 18.05.2019 at 12:06, Joe Watkins wrote:

> Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
> mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
> a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...

I can confirm that the spam to this mailing list has drastically (by at
least factor 10) increased since a week ago.

> Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?

+1

cc'd systems mailing list.

Thanks,
Christoph

Sara Golemon

7 years ago

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 5:22 AM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
wrote:

> On 18.05.2019 at 12:06, Joe Watkins wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
> > mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few
> emails
> > a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...
>
> I can confirm that the spam to this mailing list has drastically (by at
> least factor 10) increased since a week ago.
>
> > Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?
>
> +1
>
> Same, I set up a (probably over-broad) gmail filter to bin those, but it's

possible I'm missing some legit ones now.

-Sara

M. W. Moe

7 years ago

Hello,

didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
frustrated individual
which didn't found anything else smarter  than spams to achieve his pity
vendetta.

Did you kept the original ones?

tschüss.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 8:12 AM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

Sara Golemon

7 years ago

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 12:19 PM M. W. Moe <mo.mu.wss@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
> frustrated individual
> which didn't found anything else smarter  than spams to achieve his pity
> vendetta.
>

I have a spam folder full of them.  They're not "please help me" so much as
"enter this contest to win some prize".

-Sara

Kalle Sommer Nielsen

7 years ago

Den lør. 18. maj 2019 kl. 20.19 skrev M. W. Moe <mo.mu.wss@gmail.com>:

>
> Hello,
>
> didn't get any; should ask over folks; I suspect it originates from a
> frustrated individual
> which didn't found anything else smarter  than spams to achieve his pity
> vendetta.
>
> Did you kept the original ones?
>
> tschüss.

These mails only goes to moderators of the php-announce@ list,
typically RMs and the like moderates this list hence why only a
handful has gotten them, each moderation mail contains the original
mail and addresses to approve or reject the message.

--
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net

M. W. Moe

7 years ago

Ok thanks for the heads-up

hence, if that 's exim you might write a script that keeps alike to
quarantine.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:16 AM Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:

Peter Kokot

7 years ago

Hello,

On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 12:06, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
> mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
> a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...
>
> Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?
>
> Cheers
> Joe

100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...

--
Peter Kokot

Peter Kokot

7 years ago

Hello,

On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 22:02, Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 12:06, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
> > mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
> > a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...
> >
> > Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Joe
>
> 100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
> other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...
>
> --
> Peter Kokot

Filter created with * from these lists going to spam directory now.
Case solved. Apologies in advance if I miss something important on
that list because this is not a list for my standards if so many spam
messages can pass through.

Regards.

--
Peter Kokot

Christoph Becker

7 years ago

On 20.05.2019 at 12:07, Peter Kokot wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 22:02, Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 12:06, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
>>> mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
>>> a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...
>>>
>>> Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?
>>
>> 100+ daily spam emails here also. Considering that these don't get to
>> other mailing lists, they can get regulated probably...
>
> Filter created with * from these lists going to spam directory now.
> Case solved. Apologies in advance if I miss something important on
> that list because this is not a list for my standards if so many spam
> messages can pass through.

I've did basically the same.  The only relevant exception is when RMs
send a mail to the announcement list, in which case they should watch
their spam folder.

--
Christoph M. Becker

Nikita Popov

7 years ago

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 12:06 PM Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know what is the cause of all the spam from the announce
> mailing list? I'm not sure who is getting it, but I'm getting a few emails
> a minute sometimes, it's rather annoying ...
>
> Can someone do some magic, and make it go away please ?
>
> Cheers
> Joe
>

Can someone from systems@ please take a look at this? The last set of
security releases did not make it to php-announce, because nobody approves
messages to this list anymore.

Nikita

Sascha Schumann

7 years ago

Who can we add as moderators?

Sascha

Christoph Becker

7 years ago

On 03.09.2019 at 17:20, Sascha Schumann wrote:

> Who can we add as moderators?

It's not about additional moderators, but rather that there has been so
much spam, that it was infeasible to check all of it for acceptable
announcements.

The main problem, though, seems that the moderation mails are no longer
sent (I received the last one on 2019-06-04).

Christoph

Sascha Schumann

6 years ago

When sending an email to php-announce@ ..

ezmlm-store:_info:_qp_26188/ezmlm-clean:_info:_qp_26206/Old_format_or_corrupted_index._Run_ezmlm-idx!_(#5.3.0)/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26212/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26219/ezmlm-warn:_info:_qp_26220/did_0+0+10/

I ran ezmlm-idx, looks better now.

Regarding delivery attempts to:

cmbecker69@gmx.de ->

failure: 212.227.17.5_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554-Transaction_failed/554-Reject_due_to_policy_restrictions./554_For_explanation_visit_http://postmaster.gmx.com/en/error-messages?ip=76.75.200.58&c=hd/

GMX rejects the messages from lists.php.net, possibly due to excessive spam from that IP address.

Cheers
Sascha

Sascha Schumann

6 years ago

We have enabled the normal php.net spam protections for lists.php.net - this is test message 1.

Sascha

Sascha Schumann

6 years ago

And this would be test message 2. Sorry about this.

Sascha

Sascha Schumann

6 years ago

Looking good (test 3).

Please alert systems@php.net if you have issues sending emails to *@lists.php.net.

Sascha

Peter Kokot

6 years ago

Hello,

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 03:45, Sascha Schumann
<sascha.schumann@myrasecurity.com> wrote:

>
> Looking good (test 3).
>
> Please alert systems@php.net if you have issues sending emails to *@lists.php.net.
>
> Sascha
>
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>

Confirming that most spam got nicely reduced now. Thank you for
enabling spam filters. There are now only few of those spam mails
passing through but I guess reading one or two messages with pharmacy
and similar content can be ignored and deleted on the mods side.

> Who can we add as moderators?

Oh, another thing. Increasing number of moderators here (on mailing
lists) doesn't help in any way. Still each moderator has the same
amount of emails to go through and the work load is not distributed
but duplicated. If we all understand this. But hopefully the relevant
emails could be approved on time anyhow.

Cheers.

--
Peter Kokot

Sascha Schumann

6 years ago

> Confirming that most spam got nicely reduced now. Thank you for
> enabling spam filters. There are now only few of those spam mails
> passing through but I guess reading one or two messages with pharmacy
> and similar content can be ignored and deleted on the mods side.

Thanks for the feedback.

Best
Sascha