To whom it may concern, I am writing to bring your attention to the overwhelming spam problem in the mailing list of <debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org>.
Out of 114 messages since late Jan this year, less than 15 of those 114 messages are related to debian. All the other emails are corporate spam written in Chinese (both in big5 and gb). I would like to stress that when I subscribed this list at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and clicked the box for "debian-chinese-big5", I read "Debian Chinese Project: Chinese localization (l10n), documentation and web site translation, user support etc." There was no warning or mention of the extensive amount of corporate advertisements that are on the mailing list. I am curious about: (1) how many subscribers are on the list; (2) how many of those subscribers are spammers; (3) are all these spams actually being put into the mailing list achives? (4) is there any policy on mailing lists where the vast majority of emails are off-topic and are also spam? (5) do other non-English mailing lists also receive such large amounts of spam(such as the debian-chinese-gb mailing list)? what course of action is taken on these lists and who is responsible for handling such situations. It appears that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the maintainer of the mailing list, though I suspect whoever this person is, they probably don't read the mailing list any more. I'd appreciate this issue be followed up promptly, or at the very least the debian mailing list webpage is updated to warn people of the overwhelming spam. -- Sincerely, Mrs. Vera Chow MA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (852) 90484211 GlamorText.com - Specialists in Chinese and English Translation, Copy-Writing and Internet Development
