Re: Recent spam

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:08, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >No-one has asked the administrators of your mailing list to do anything 
> >special, just to refrain from doing unusual things.
> >
> >If you want a quick temporary fix then change the list address.  The 
> >subscribers will be able to deal with it well enough (it's happened before) 
> >but the spammers will take some time to catch up.
> >
> >  
> >
> Remove Russell from the list.

Hans, a short review:

1) For many months people (not just Russell) have been asking namesys to
fix various simple problems with the mail server configuration.  These
problems make anyone using automatic spam reporting tools report namesys
as spammers.

2) Somehow, various spam databases think namesys is a spammer.

3) namesys has not fixed the listserver.

4) namesys gets mad about being in the spam database.

You can have #3 or #4, but not both.  Either fix the list, or ignore the
problem, but don't leave the list broken and get angry when you end up
in a spammer database.  It doesn't really matter how you got there, the
fault lies with namesys, not the list users.

If all the time and energy spent talking about spam on the reiserfs list
actually went into fixing the list, this conversation would have ended a
long time ago.

-chris