From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: why does reiserfs list get so much spam? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:19:20 +0200 Message-ID: <432AAA38.9000102@mch.one.pl> References: <432A9BFD.10700@mch.one.pl> <20050916104129.GA11025@kruemel> <432AA409.5070006@interia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Grzegorz Kulewski Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. -- Tomek http://wpkg.org