Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > imho we should disable *any* special handling of posts to the mailing > > > lists. > > > > It would be interesting to try that for awhile and see if the cure is > > worse than the disease or not. How many clueless "uns*bscr*be" requests > > will hit the lists if there are no filters? > > To be honest, not many ... 50% of what I have to moderate are plain and > simply spam (and that isn't an exaggeration, I wiped out something like > 150 out of 350 messages the other day) ... maybe about 25% are duplicate > postings ... I'd say <1% are subscribe/unsubscribe ... and the rest are > mostly from ppl not subscribed to the lists at all ...
Let me add that I have looked at some non-pg lists and it looks terrible to see spam in there, right in the archives. Marc's manual review is clearly keeping our list of a high quality. Removing the admin keyword blocks should fix most of our problems. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
