Many subscribers to the european-sociologist list will have
felt plagued by the recent 'exchange of views' about the
NATO conference. Mailbase has been aware of this problem.
The followed excerpt forwarded from a message from Mailbase
indicates some of the steps they have been taking to try to
curb the spam. I have notified them about the unsolicited
Leipzig Conference Centre message as well.
--Robert Miller
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:29:32 +0100 (BST) Mailbase Helpline
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> We are very concerned about the recent spamming of a
number of Mailbase
> lists over the last few days.
>
> There were 2 occurrences:
> - a student from France posting a questionnaire
> - someone from the University of Middlesex advertising a conference on NATO.
>
> Both have been contacted by Mailbase.
>
> Mailbase takes a large number of measures on your behalf to detect mail
> loops and potential spams in order to reduce the amount of junk mail to its
> lists. ( See http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/docs/junk.html) There are guidelines
> too for people who want to cross post to more than one list. (See
> http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/docs/guidelines.html)
>
> The recent problem happened because one message was sent to a large number
> of lists by a non-member.
> Mailbase will look at blocking email to more than a small number of lists.
> This will not stop the determined spammer of course (but our other
> anti-spam measures will pick this up) - but it *will* stop the accidental
> spammer.
>
> Mailbase will look at this as a matter or priority. (Although we are very
> short staffed on the programming side at present.)
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jill Foster
> Mailbase Director
>
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Robert Miller
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