From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro Subject: Re: mailing list filters? Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:34:28 -0300 Message-ID: <4468D7C4.2050504@instant.com.br> References: <4465DCA6.2020205@gmail.com> <4468B96A.7030707@redfish-solutions.com> <4468C0F2.1000406@instant.com.br> <1147720227.13948.2.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1147720227.13948.2.camel@mindpipe> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Lee Revell Cc: Philip Prindeville , Takashi Iwai , Alvaro Kuolas , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Lee Revell wrote: >On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:57 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > > >>My suggestion is: reply with a challenge from any non-subscriber post, and then (optionally) insert the sender in a whitelist so s/he doesn't need to go through the challenge process at every message. There is mailing list software out there that does that -- is Sourceforge's among them? >> >> > >Overkill and too annoying for the casual poster. > >We could knock out 90% of the spam by banning .gif and .jpg attachments. > >Lee > > I don't know, my instinct says that's overly optimistic. This particular flood of spam happened to be comprised of an image attachment, but there's LOTS of spam that's text-only. You can do that, it sure is no harm, but I predict we'll be experiencing spam floods again soon thereafter. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642