Way too much SPAM on this list atm

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:21:37AM +0800, Philip Cummins wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >I would like to avoid requiring membership privileges if possible. 
> >I'll talk with the YDL guys and see if we can get the list washed 
> >through spamassassin...
> 
> Membership to post is not an onerous restriction I find. If there are 
> people that are posting from the wrong address, it's a simple matter 
> to inform them when they get caught in moderation to update their 
> details. I guess what with the recent spoofing email attacks that 
> have been occuring extra checks may be required to confirm who's 
> -really- sending, but in general most spam to lists can be blocked 
> fairly easily with members only posting restrictions. (Oh yes, and 
> blocking email listings on the web to stop email trawling). For 
> filtering, since MOL lists use Mailman it is trivial to filter on the 
> List-Id: field. I use this to filter on, so no MOL list spam gets to 
> my personal mailbox if it comes through the list.

Well, the case is that you may miss bug reports from user not subscribed
ot the list, and this may be a too expensive step to take for a user
support mailing list, especially as a spam filter gets ride of most of
the stuff anyway.

Friendly,

Sven Luther