On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:14:45AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:14:15PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > BTW, just in case anyone's wondering about the recent spam flurry, that's > > due to a bug on lists.debian.org that's still being worked on. > > Wouldn't most spam be stopped by simply requiring that only subscribed users > can post? Or does it cause too much problems for people that post from other > accounts than the one they are subscribed to (are there many of those > people, anyway?)?
That would be me, for example. (Pretend for a moment that I don't have a debian.org address and therefore couldn't be bulk-whitelisted.) I subscribe from a different address because there's no point sending all my list mail through another occasionally overloaded system. Spam has been increasingly forging sender addresses in recent months, anyway. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
