Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Does this mean you drop spam, currently? No, we pack it in neat little mailboxes with the greatest of care, and then proceed to blissfully forget that those messages were ever received unless someone wonders why their message never made it through. Then,

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Blars, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I've been working on the spam filtering for the BTS. We are getting >>> over 100,000 spams/day and about 50/day get through the filte

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are >>>spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (packa

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 05, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Drop not, but reject. It would be the best, if you can reject spam in > the SMTP dialog. Actually it's the only possible solution, a 100K msg/day backscatter source would be quickly widely blacklisted. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Blars, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are >>spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package >>name, version, etc) is not followed; the b

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-02 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Would it be acceptable to reject or drop more non-spam? (We could >I am uncomfortable with dropping any mail, but I encourage a sensible >policy to reject spam. Sorry if I did not make it clear before, we already are dumping 100,000 mess

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 01, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be acceptable to reject or drop more non-spam? (We could I am uncomfortable with dropping any mail, but I encourage a sensible policy to reject spam. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-01 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing >on this and some other email lists. Others have commented on this, I have little to add to this part. >I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are