On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:31:31 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Adam Monsen wrote: > > > Could we please get some anti-spam protection on this mailing list? > > There's almost more noise than signal. > > I don't see this noise since I use bogofilter to filter out almost all > SPAM (500-1000 SPAM messages/day). However, recently I have > encountered lots of problems with sites that won't accept my mail due > to poorly-implemented anti-SPAM measures. If there is a trade-off, I > would rather receive (and filter) SPAM than not be able to post to > lists.
I agree. > There is an apparent FSF policy that non-subscribers should be able to > post to GNU mailing lists. This policy is one reason why there is so > much SPAM on the lists. The alternative is that many useful postings > would not be posted to the lists. Yes, quite a tradeoff. However, I'd prefer if non-subscribers were *not* allowed to post to the list... this seems to be the norm with most mailing lists to which I'm subscribed. > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > -- Adam Monsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://adammonsen.com/
