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It has been more than a point. :) Thanks, Murat Yuksel
On Oct 24, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
It looks like someone's trying to make a point.
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luckily, many of us saw almost none of this spam due to effective inbound spam filtering on our accounts. which is awesome. i did, however, manage to see lots of messages from people complaining about the spam that they did receive. :-) t On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
It looks like someone's trying to make a point.
The takeaway is:
1) NANOG doesn't seem to do simple inbound spam filtering :-)
-Jim P.
On Oct 26, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
It looks like someone's trying to make a point.
The takeaway is:
1) NANOG doesn't seem to do simple inbound spam filtering :-)
In fairness to the Communications Committee (of which I have zero influence or power), a few points: 1) They apparently filtered it more than a day ago, we are just seeing the queue drain. Which is not surprising on a mailing list of > 10K email addresses. 2) Inbound spam filtering is VERY HARD on something like NANOG. How many people here post things like samples of spam? Imagine the backlash: “This is an operational list. How could you not expect operational content to include samples?!?!?! AAARRGGGGGHHHHHHHh HRHFLSHFBEAW% ^&*DKJHFSLkdjh@#%asltrifhuawlekhtfweq5r1r#@%!@#QWEGDAwsgfhqw!!!!111!!!!” (That is honestly what I expect of some posters here….) 3) Anyone who feels this is so frickin’ bad it is unbearable, and knows they could do SO MUCH BETTER themselves, should volunteer for the Communications Committee. Otherwise, everyone should thank the unpaid volunteers for their gracious and excellent work day after day, year after year. Or just STFU. For my part, I would just like to thank the CC members. I think they do a most amazing job, and deserve of humblest gratitude. -- TTFN, patrick
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:03:26PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
3) Anyone who feels this is so frickin??? bad it is unbearable, and knows they could do SO MUCH BETTER themselves, should volunteer for the Communications Committee. Otherwise, everyone should thank the unpaid volunteers for their gracious and excellent work day after day, year after year. Or just STFU.
For my part, I would just like to thank the CC members. I think they do a most amazing job, and deserve of humblest gratitude.
hear hear! -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
3) Anyone who feels this is so frickin’ bad it is unbearable, and knows they could do SO MUCH BETTER themselves, should volunteer for the Communications Committee. Otherwise, everyone should thank the unpaid volunteers for their gracious and excellent work day after day, year after year. Or just STFU.
Yes, yes, the volunteers are all wonderful people and can I get a hip-hip-hooray. Nevertheless, before I "STFU" I would politely suggest that volunteering to perform a function for which one is not prepared to put in the needed effort is generally worse than not volunteering at all. Volunteering blocks other would-be volunteers for the same effort. Even if there are no other volunteers, it prevents the function from being farmed out to a paid service with the appropriate diligence and expertise. I would urge the current volunteers to careful consider whether they're willing and able to put in the exceptional effort and commitment of time and availability needed to competently operate a mailing list server on today's Internet. Failing to halt a spam flood in a timely manner does not exhibit a reasonable level of commitment to the task. One simply can't walk away from a mail server for a couple of days any more. Even volunteer efforts require the kind of monitoring and on-call rotations we all use in our professional lives. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
"It looks like someone's trying to make a point" Must be an Outlook exploit affected several clients. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
It looks like someone's trying to make a point.
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I love all the email about spam -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ishmael Rufus Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 12:59 PM To: surfer@mauigateway.com Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: spam smackdown? "It looks like someone's trying to make a point" Must be an Outlook exploit affected several clients. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
It looks like someone's trying to make a point.
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Ishmael Rufus -
Jim Mercer -
Jim Popovitch -
John Springer -
Kain, Rebecca (.) -
Murat Yuksel -
Patrick W. Gilmore -
Scott Weeks -
Todd Underwood -
William Herrin