Re: Recent spam

["Ragnar Kjørstad" <reiserfs@ragnark.vestdata.no>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:11:53AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 10:57, Chris Dukes wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:26:34PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > What is inconsiderate is taking the time to flag some of these spams
> > as spam, but not taking the time to forward them off to a bucket for
> > approval or disposal (And multiple people can sort through the spam,
> > so don't blame your overworked sysadmin.
> 
> Heh, time spent moderating messages would either be by Hans' sysadmin or
> his coders.  I'd just as soon see the tagged messages deleted.

I'm sure a lot of subscribers to the list would volunteer to
approve/disaprove postings marked as possible spam. I should wouldn't
mind using a few minutes a week if it would help.

> > <suggestion>
> > If namesys' admin is unable or unwilling to get the namesys mailing
> > lists to cease being anonymous injection points for SPAM, perhaps
> > you should contract out the management of the mailing list.
> > Considering past incidents (like the mailloop), it may solve problems
> > beyond SPAM.
> > </suggestion>

Moving the list to sourceforge or another simular service may be useful
to reduce the amount of systemadministration.



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Ragnar Kjørstad
Zet.no