On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just > subscribed and already see spam and phishing attacks...
Yes. There are infinitely many ways to make it harder to spam the list, among them: * Allowing posting only by subscribers. * Requiring a signed agreement and a surety bond before allowing posting to the list. * Only allowing people to post to the list if they have an armed guard standing beside them who shoots spammers on sight. * Not allowing posting to the list. Unfortunately, all the ways that have yet been proposed and not implemented have been rejected by the listmasters because all of them involve tradeoffs that are unacceptable to the listmasters or the Debian community. If you think you have a better one that has not yet been discussed, feel free to file a bug on the lists.debian.org pseudo-package. While you're at it, please don't reply to spam, and if you must reply to it, please don't quote it. We don't want to see it (again) and you make it harder for those of us who use statistics-based spam filters. HTH. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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