31 Oct
2013
31 Oct
'13
2:38 a.m.
The probability of anyone in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, or Kazakhstan,
becoming an SR member, asymptotically approaches zero. The probability
of spams, scams, spyware, malware, etc. coming from those locations, is
high. The ratio of spam to real correspondence from yandex.com
addresses is presently 1.0 : 0.
That's a lousy risk/benefit ratio. So IMHO ban the hell out of
yandex.com and any other domain that shows itself to be a significant
source of spam etc.
"Open" as in "accepting" does not equal "open" as in
"unprotected." We
are not under any obligation to have no collective immune system.
Species without immune defenses don't even last long enough to become
footnotes in archaeology.
-G
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On 13-10-30-Wed 5:10 PM, Steve Berl wrote:
You might not want to ban everyone from yandex.com
<http://yandex.com>. It is a huge ISP with many millions of customers
from all over Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. It would be
equivalent to banning everyone from yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> or
similar.
I'd suggest a bit more specific filtering.
-steve
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com
<mailto:yardenack@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl(a)gmail.com
<mailto:steveberl@gmail.com>> wrote:
The spam From: field says "john re
<giovanni-re(a)yandex.com
<mailto:giovanni-re@yandex.com>>"
The real emails seem to come from
"giovanni_re"
<john_re(a)fastmail.us
<mailto:john_re@fastmail.us>>
The spam emails all came from:
giovanni-re(a)yandex.com <mailto:giovanni-re@yandex.com>
carefullychipped(a)yandex.com <mailto:carefullychipped@yandex.com>
Neither of these had posted to the list before, and both were banned.
A pattern also became clear after yet another new subscriber showed
up, named:
yardena.cohen(a)yandex.com <mailto:yardena.cohen@yandex.com>
Creepy! At that point I just decided to ban everything from
yandex.com <http://yandex.com>, which seems to have stopped the
problem. There were no
other subscribers from that domain.
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