From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Kuther Subject: Re: mailing list filters? Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:17:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20060518201722.2faedde3@SiRiUS.home> References: <4465DCA6.2020205@gmail.com> <4468B96A.7030707@redfish-solutions.com> <4468C0F2.1000406@instant.com.br> <1147720227.13948.2.camel@mindpipe> <4468D7C4.2050504@instant.com.br> <1147722048.13948.9.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1147722048.13948.9.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: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:40:47 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:34 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > > 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. > > > > I don't think we need to get it all, I'm perfectly happy with a 90% > S/N ratio. But there are many for whom a single spam is too much. > > Lee > well it's like 90/10 S/N ratio, yes. My spamassassin runs hot with this list. *hint* :) (thank god for it!) Tom ------------------------------------------------------- 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