[UCIMC-Tech] spam to chambana.net maling lists

Barry Isralewitz barryi at ks.uiuc.edu
Wed Feb 19 19:39:43 UTC 2014


Hi Josh,

  Thanks for looking into this. I’ll look out for spam reduction.

	Cheers,
	Barry

On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Josh King <jking at chambana.net> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> Hi Barry,
> 
> I do think there's been an increase in spam traffic across the board.
> I'm not certain what's caused it; if anything, I've increased the spam
> filtering capabilities of the mail server. I think we may have just
> gotten on some bad spam lists. I have a couple ideas of how to make our
> filtering tougher; I'll see if I can implement one or two in the next
> few days and I'll come back to the list here for feedback on any
> improvement.
> 
> On Tue 18 Feb 2014 11:06:30 AM EST, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the past months, I’ve seen a big increase in spam to mailing lists
> > I help manage.
> > In particular, bikecoop-announce receives about 70-100 / spam mails
> > day; this  used to be 3 or 4 per week.
> > I do what I can to discourage spam — limited to discarding, not
> > rejecting, spam posts — but we do link to the list on our web site.
> > Is there some filter that’s not working?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Barry
> > --
> > Barry Isralewitz
> > Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
> > 3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> > Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
> > email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:barryi at ks.uiuc.edu>
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
> >
> >
> >
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Barry Isralewitz
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu   http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi




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