Re: Cutting down spam on this list

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

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Takashi Iwai wrote:
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>>>>These are mails from alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, the old ML address,
>>>>which just redirects to SF.  I don't know why it's still needed, too,
>>>>maybe just for convenience...
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>>>>
>>>What would break if it were turned off?
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>>>
>>Many people won't reach to ML :)
>>I found that the addresses are not updated in linux/MAINTAINERS.  Need
>>to fix it.  Sigh.
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>I would prefer to use the alsa-devel@alsa-project.org rather than SF 
>address to avoid problems when we move mailing lists to some other
>server. The SF address should not be our public address.
>
>What's the problem? If the contents based spam detection is problematic, 
>nothing help us.
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>						Jaroslav
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The problem is that the spam needs to be detected as close to the source
as possible, which means cutting down the number of legitimate relays
that it has to pass through.

Now, if *everyone* posts via the alsa-project.org address, and that
simply forwards to lists.sourceforge.net for explosion (but that direct
submission is blocked at sourceforge) then we can do the filtering
on alsa-project.org...

-Philip



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