[volunteers] (forw) [Mailman-owner] Auto-discard notification

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:44:31PM -0700:

> Now, spammers are a dime a dozen:  What's notable is this guy's the
> first I've seen first go through a list subscription process, including
> three-way subscribe confirmation.  Professional spammers never do that;
> it leaves too clear a trail.  From that and some checking, I conclude
> this guy's (1) very new and (2) not very bright.

When I first saw this list traffic I thought he was
trying to swipe some SVLUG Google Juice by getting
his URLs into the list archives.  But the only URLs
that made it were the subscribe/unsubscribe ones,
so he's either (1) really bad at spam or (2) really
bad at black-hat search engine optimization.

There are huge quantities of Google Juice just waiting
to be taken from the list archives of long-running
LUGs.

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Don Marti                    
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
dmarti at zgp.org