On Friday 17 October 2003 12:53, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I agree that it's not that difficult. Perhaps "heroic" was a bad > choice of words, but I'll still wager that a significant percentage > of newbies won't take the time to set up an aggressive anti-spam > system, but will migrate away from this (and other) listservs if this > isn't somehow brought under control.
I agree, and have argued for years, that spam will someday be the main threat to many online foras unless brought under control. Unfortunately, using a good anti-spam system is a necessity today, and so I think one approach to the problem is to include a good SA config with the exim4-config-package. Something that makes use of exiscan-acl to reject spam at SMTP-time. In fact, I think one of the things that may be driving users towards Debian is the availability of a very powerful, easily configurable anti-spam systems such as SpamAssassin. Nevertheless, I think some kind of obfuscation of e-mail addresses in the archives may be a good idea. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
