[Alpine-info] spam on alpine-info

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:


> On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>> Eduardo,

>>         do you have administrator authority on alpine-info at u.washington.edu 

>> ? Can you implement some antispam filtering on fictitious new subscribers ? 

>> Or pass this suggestion to the admistrator?

>

> Dear Lucio,

>

>  to clarify. I do not have any more control of this list than you. I do not 

> know who adminsters this list either. All I know is that we are getting spam, 

> and it does not take any effort to subscribe by a different name/address to 

> continue sending it. The archives of the list will be affected by this, but 

> you can always filter it on your side.

>

>  I realize this is not what you want to read, I am sorry for the bad news.

>

> -- 

> Eduardo

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I submitted a ticket to UWash IT and have had a reply
suggesting that they have alerted the list owner "Michael".

If I get a confirmation of the correct address of the list owner
I will share it with the list.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk