Better to bounce or moderate entries from non-subscribers, IMOHO. That would cut down on the spam quite a lot better than probabilistic filters as well.
There are probably reasons why this hasn't been done, although most non-debian mailing lists seem to take this approach (and see none of the noise). Allowing spam through has the nasty side effect of harming link-weighted web search -- once messages hit the archives all of the backlinks add to the ranking of the target (evil) pages. - Adam On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:40 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Hi, > > With web-board passwords and two or three auto-acks being posted to this > list every week: could we think about setting the Reply-To of > debian-security-announce to something else? Perhaps something in ALL CAPS > that is not an email address, like > > Reply-To: EDIT HERE - REPLY TO <debian-security -at- lists.debian.org> > > cheers > -- vbi > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
