Cpunks List: Remove The Spammer From The List

[Greg Newby]

Hi grarpamp. I appreciate your passion for the cypherpunks list, and
your contributions so it.

For your request below:

In short, it is my belief that subscribers who don't want to see
content from other subscribers are expected to have the capability to
block those subscribers from their personal mailboxes.

Every email system I know of can do this quite easily. In the long-ago
times, people like Tim May called these a kill list.  "Welcome to my
kill list" was often heard. It was part of my welcome to the
cypherpunks, back around the year 2000.

At this point in time, the stresses on mail delivery I first reported
here in September is still creating delivery delays for gmail
users. However, I have observed that even on days with just a few
cypherpunks messages (and none from Karl, for example), Google's mail
servers complain & delay delivery.

Many gmail users have been automatically unsubscribed as a result.
This is unfortunate, but it would not be fixed by banning or censoring
the people mentioned below. Instead, the solution is for those
subscribers to not use their @gmail.com addresses to receive the
list. There are plenty of other free email providers. I hear that
protonmail.ch works reasonably well. 

I did make one configuration change last fall, and reported it here:
the list now has a cap of 24 posts in any 24 hours. Karl, in
particular, has adjusted his output accordingly.

Further discussion on any of these topics is welcome.

Best regards to you and all cypherpunks subscribers.
  ~ Greg


On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 01:07:27AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> These spammers are continuing to spam the list.
> These accounts are both doing nothing but robotic spamming,
> flooding users mailboxes, blowing out the archives, spamming
> identical copies many tens of times, spewing gibberish, making
> no point or commentary, running bots, spamming other non
> subscribers into the list, etc.
> THOUSANDS of SPAM, MONTH after MONTH they SPAM...
> And they have admitted willful intent to destroy the list.
> One spampsychobot itself "Gunnar".
> Another spampsychobot calls itself "Karl".
> All have condemned their spam.
> As before, the internet has long since decided that such
> spammers have no right to inflict such abuse on lists.
> And rate limiting spammers does not solve the problem.
> 
> So, this time, do your job Greg...
> 
> The Internet has provided three options for list operators...
> 
> 1) You must kick these spammers accounts off the list.
> 2) You must set the moderation flag on these spammers accounts
> and deal with and filter them out yourself.
> 3) You must move these spammers accounts off to a separate
> new list that you create for them alone.
> 
> So take your pick of the above options and do your job Greg.