From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: Spam coming from the list Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:51:57 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20040926215157.A11082@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20040926162447.718973F03@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040926162447.718973F03@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org>; from aeriksson@fastmail.fm on Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: aeriksson@fastmail.fm Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200, aeriksson@fastmail.fm wrote: > I hate spam as much as the next guy, but filtering in at the mail list > server it just not the Right Thing to do. It's an end2end problem and > needs to have and end2end solution. All of us have private filers > anyway, and we only run the risk of dropping legitimate mail. Disagree - peoples email systems actively reject spam, which causes bounces. The list interprets bounces as a failure of your address, and with enough of them will disable and then unsubscribe you. Obviously bad news for the subscribers. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core