Spam being received

[Neil Hodgson]

The amount of spam received by the scintilla-interest and scite-interest mailing lists has increased recently with a common pattern of pushing ways to download or use commercial media or software without paying. The messages are received after a subscription request from a reasonable-looking address so this is more complex than simply transmitting spam.

When a message appears, its easy to reject that user as well but its not possible to easily determine that a new subscription request is well-intentioned. Therefore, new subscribers may not be authorized in a timely manner.

Neil