[forum] XFree86 forum, members only change, discuss

[Marc Aurele La France]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, William M. Quarles wrote:

> 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.)

No.  It's more like if you deal with with your own spam filtering, then the 
list doesn't need to.  Besides, what defines spam isn't the transport, nor 
even the sender, but the receipient.

Marc.

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