Re: mailing list filters?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:34 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:57 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>My suggestion is: reply with a challenge from any non-subscriber post, and then (optionally) insert the sender in a whitelist so s/he doesn't need to go through the challenge process at every message. There is mailing list software out there that does that -- is Sourceforge's among them?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Overkill and too annoying for the casual poster.
> >
> >We could knock out 90% of the spam by banning .gif and .jpg attachments.
> >
> >Lee
> >  
> >
> I don't know, my instinct says that's overly optimistic. This particular 
> flood of spam happened to be comprised of an image attachment, but 
> there's LOTS of spam that's text-only. You can do that, it sure is no 
> harm, but I predict we'll be experiencing spam floods again soon thereafter.
> 

I don't think we need to get it all, I'm perfectly happy with a 90% S/N
ratio.  But there are many for whom a single spam is too much.

Lee



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