From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: 90% of the spam I receive comes through this list Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:55:44 -0500 Message-ID: <1131137744.4770.36.camel@mindpipe> References: <5bdc1c8b0511040848u1117ee0ana295723f130bece8@mail.gmail.com> <1131129636.4770.16.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1131129636.4770.16.camel@mindpipe> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Mark Knecht Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 13:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:48 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > It's just an observation but about 90% of the spam I receive every > > week seems to come through this list. The only other list I ever > > receive any spam from is LKML and it's very much lower than > > Alsa-devel. > > > > Is there no filtering on this server or does the filter just let this > > much get through? > > There obviously is filtering, it just lets some through. It's really > not bad, 2 or 3 messages a day. > What I mean is that every list message has headers like this: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 The basic issue is that alsa-devel is required to be an open list as it's listed in the kernel MAINTAINERS file. But sourceforge does not have nearly as good spam filtering as vger.kernel.org. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php