From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Axel Thimm Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:34:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] spam Message-Id: <20090126173420.GD10884@victor.nirvana> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1360857517850152722==" List-Id: References: <537C6C0940C6C143AA46A88946B8541710A4164D@ORNLEXCHANGE.ornl.gov> In-Reply-To: <537C6C0940C6C143AA46A88946B8541710A4164D@ORNLEXCHANGE.ornl.gov> To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org --===============1360857517850152722== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg" Content-Disposition: inline --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:15:33PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Dear Line, >=20 > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:46:11 -0500, Pouchard, Line Catherine wrote: > > Dear list organisors: > >=20 > > Is it possible to keep this kind of spam of the list? >=20 > I have already asked our administrator (Axel, Cc'd) to erase this > offending spam from our mailing list archive. And now, Axel, please > _also_ remove this post from Line, as she quoted the message in its > entirety :( Actually the spam was recogniyed at level 3.0, but the filters deny at 5.0 and above. Maybe we should lower the spam barrier (which would hit a couple of false positives, but better to get an email a month denied than be spammed that way). > > Maybe restricting access? >=20 > This would unfortunately be against our openness ideals. We want our > users to be able to ask for help without going through the hassle of > subscribing (and later unsubscribing) to a mailing list. >=20 > What we would need it slightly better filtering, maybe. Alas, it's > difficult to fight against this kind of annoyance. In general I agree with Line, the net has become a bad place, and while openness always sounds good, it does do more harm than good these days. :( OTOH wikipedia shows that it can work, but at the expense of many volunteer time to rectify whatever the bad guys break. --=20 Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl99BwACgkQQBVS1GOamfE9kQCeI0O8G7GXOtccHLoOuBkWU+VO 5ZEAnixtXA2WAdvOhGoT2GvZCz9bJgfW =cQdQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg-- --===============1360857517850152722== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors --===============1360857517850152722==--