[forum] XFree86 forum, members only change, discuss

[William M. Quarles]

Hi all,

The amount of spam on this list is disgusting.  It has gotten much worse
as time has gone on.  Apparently this is due mostly to the fact that
anyone can post to the list without enrolling.  I'm sure that there
has been a very positive reason for this, but the spam on this list
outnumbers the real e-mails 20 to 1 at least.  I think if we are going
to keep this list going and be a viable forum we need to do one of two
things:

1. Seriously improve the spam filtering on the list (make sure to
download the latest version of  Spam Assasin, and use some other
service's better maintained Spam Assasin heuristics if necessary). OR
2. Close the list to non-members.

Let's discuss (since there hasn't been much discussion lately here).

William

(P.S. It is a little ridiculous how I had to take s u b s c r i b e and 
its variants out of this message just to get it on the list.  If we make 
it members-only we won't have to worry about spam filtering anymore really.)