Rob McEwen wrote:
Steve Thomas wrote:
Once again, Perkel clutters the SpamAssassin list with a non-SpamAssassin
discussion. ...Is anyone else getting tired of this? ...have nothing to do
with SA. What's the point of having a
topical mailing list if nobody cares that the discussion is off-topic?
Dhawal wrote:
Make that 2 of us. I for one would like to filter out all mails/threads
originated by perkel (yeah which would include this mail as well)..
I couldn't disagree with these two people more. It is just these types of
discussions which led to things like SURBL and fuzzyOCR...
And a similar, slightly OT, discussion (though, it may have been on the
mailscanner or mimedefang lists) lead to a mimedefang-filter that then
later lead to the Botnet plugin for SA.
and yet we
get so many OTHER repetitive discussions about thinks like **basic** SA
setup, rules update procedures, etc... therefore, this stuff complained
about is a fairly small percentage of the whole (maybe not for today, but
overall it is).
And, the funny thing is, this thread wasn't THAT OT.
Sure, the "email storage in SQL" discussion was rather OT... it had
almost nothing to do with spam. But this discussion, about how to
defeat spambots, is at least about fighting spam. That may not be
literally about the nuts and bolts of being a "spamassassin user", but
it is generally relevant to the interests of this list.
I don't have a problem with:
a) things that are slightly OT (relate to the general purpose of the
list), as long as they don't take over the list or drift way off topic
b) things that are a bit more OT, but that don't clutter the list
I think "Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan" was done fine with (a).
