Re: why does reiserfs list get so much spam?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@mch.one.pl>]

Grzegorz Kulewski schrieb:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
>> Ingo Bormuth schrieb:
>>
>>>  On 2005-09-16 12:18, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>> > When I look at the archives, the first impression is that 90% of 
>>> posts on > the list are spam messages...
>>> > Can't you do something about that?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Locally I pipe all mail through spamassassin and hardly see any spam.
>>>  I think that should also be applicable for the archive (which really is
>>>  hard to read by now).
>>
>>
>> The real reason is that it allows posts from non-registered users...
>> This should really be fixed.
>> Spam in the archive looks lame :)
>>
>> I just sent this mail from an email which I never registered to 
>> send/receive mail from this list.
> 
> 
> Don't do that. *Many* people subscribed to LKML are posting here and 
> often Namesys people CC this list in their posts. This way replies to 
> such posts will be lost. It will cause major pain in following such 
> threads.
> 
> Instead there are really good techniques to fight spam while not causing 
> harm to legitimate users. For example checking if sending host is 
> allowed to post mails from specified domain, different bayes filters 
> (including adaptive ones), graylisting and so on. I will bet that only 
> first of these ideas will kill 50% of spam here (including this from 
> *polcom.net that I reported to Hans several months ago - of course this 
> spam does not come from our servers but is using fake domain - easy to 
> filter out).

yeah, but it is to be used by the end-user.

the archive will be still filled with spam.

not everyone who wants to know about reiser subscribes to the list; most 
of the people would just use the archives.


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Tomek
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