--On Wednesday, April 07, 2004 23:43 -0500 David Stanaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with you Russell, but I suggest a good compromise is to moderate unsubscribed posts.
This has a flaw for some types of spammer which are aware of mailing lists and subscribe to the list, then make a post so this kind of filter doesn't work so well on list environments like yahoo groups, but it would cut down on the amount of spam for certain on Debian lists.
It shouldn't be too difficult for someone with access to the list membership and the list archives to calculate some statistics for the number of posts/week for different debian lists would be moderated due to sender address not being subscribed, just to see what kind of burden it would be for the list moderators.
I'd be more than happy to assist in moderating such a thing if it cut down on everyone else's SPAM loads. I don't personally like the idea of having to do it LOL, but I'm more than happy to volunteer for the 'greater good'.
Also, a workaround for the flaw in this method to avert spam is to moderate subscriptions, but this will probably be less acceptable to the community.
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