Re: spam flood

[Eric Blake]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:00:01PM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> 
> There seems to be much more spam than usual today, from random addresses
> sending to old coreutils bug reports, really wanting you to open their
> zip file. There are so many it is hard to moderate by hand, but it seems
> like all the mails are fairly similar and so should be detectable by
> automatic methods.

Not just coreutils, but across a broad spectrum of mailing lists and
also personal accounts.

The worst is that the mails are using valid subject lines and dates as
if they were in reply to a thread from many years ago.  Most spam
subjects are so obviously off-topic they don't need a second glance
from a human moderator, but this new batch of spam is insidious in
that if you don't check out the body, but merely look at the default
UI view for the moderator queue (which shows only the subject line),
you'll miss that the body is indeed spam.

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