Re: Reducing spam on alsa-devel

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:44 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>  
>
>>Anyone know how to contact the list administrator?  I tried sending
>>an email to alsa-devel-request but never heard back.
>>
>>I'd like to work with him/her to improve the SpamAssassin settings
>>and cut down on some of the spam we're seeing on this list.
>>    
>>
>
>There is very little spam on this list (less than 10%).  I doubt it can
>all be eliminated without some false positives.
>
>Anyway check the message headers for instructions.
>
>Lee
>
>  
>

The list headers say to contact alsa-devel-admin, which I've already tried.

10% is fairly high.  A lot higher than other open lists that I subscribe to.

"Some false positives" isn't unacceptable.  Usually the person can
figure out
why he got the false positive, and repost in such a way that he doesn't.

About 90% of the spam that does get through on this list, I'm able to
identify
just from the Subject: line alone.  So changing the subject would be enough
to get it through...

-Philip



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