[Groop] Groop Spam

[Josh 'Wet Exit' Jones]

Ha I just figured it all out! (that was quick, eh?)

Yesterday for some reason my posts weren't going to the list, and I
thought the list was broken. Sick of the problems with upgrading, I
started about making an entirely new groop list, in our DreamHost system
proper (the current one is on our first server, kind of on the outskirts
of the main system).

After adding everybody to the new list, I was starting to mirror all the
configuration settings when I noticed the REASON my posts weren't going
through was because my email address was in the "discard messages from
these addresses" list! I had apparently added it when I was using the
admin section earlier to approve an earlier post of mine and clicked "add
email address to filter". I thought that was the filter of addresses
ALLOWED to post, not NOT allowed!

So then I abandoned that new list I'd set up and stopped working on it.

It turns out that when I set up that new list it edited the groop at groo.com
alias to now ALSO email the new list! So that's why people have been
getting two messages, and why spam was getting through (that new list
wasn't set up right).

So just now I BALEETED the old list completely and soon there should be no
more spam and only one copy at a time.

I think I'm a pretty good choice for a Groo list moderator.

josh!

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Josh 'Wet Exit' Jones wrote:

> Really?
>
> Really?
>
> Hmm, yeah I just noticed I've been getting two too (but my filters are set
> up to file away duplicate emails so I hadn't noticed).
>
> Um, things are a little screwy with the groo list right now, our sys
> admins decided to upgrade the mailman software a few days ago. And this
> being the _groo_ list it hasn't all gone according to plan.
>
> As for the spam, it's weird.. these spammers are apparently actually going
> to the trouble of subscribing to the groop! I've been getting
> notified when their first email is blocked, and then I guess they're
> actually subscribing and resending! I'm not sure what to do.. I'll figure
> something out!
>
> josh!
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chad Riden wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:39  PM, jorge filevich wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody else receive two copies of each Groop e-mail as I do
> > > since yesterday?
> > > Jorge F.
> > >
> >
> >
> > yup..
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks for putting up with my crap,
> >
> > Chad M. Riden
> > http://www.ChadMRiden.com/
> > http://www.MangyDog.com/
> > http://www.NashvilleStandup.com/
> >
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