[Wylug-discuss] Pesky Spammers

[Christopher Brown]

2008/6/5 Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com>:
> Unsurprisingly the Wylug lists, like pretty much every other e-mail list
> in existence, get a lot of spam sent to them.  Fortunately the spammers
> aren't subscribed to the list, so their messages get held up for
> approval rather than being inflicted on all Wyluggers.
>
> Normally it's straightforward when looking at mails needing approval to
> work out which are which.  But today one had the subject line:
>
>  RE: Vi must be used only once per day.
>
> The spammers are now using subjects which are just about plausible for
> genuine threads on this mailing list!  Grrr ...

If it had the subject line "Emacs will enhance your sex life!!!" I
might just believe it!

-- 
Christopher Brown

http://www.chruz.com