Re: mailing list filters?

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

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sat, 13 May 2006 10:18:30 -0300,
> Alvaro Kuolas wrote:
>   
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Searching a little bit about the spam problems. On the "[Alsa-devel]
>> crypto layer in alsa" thread says that this is a know problem.
>>
>> Why not filter all except for text and patch (goodbye HTML, JPG, etc)?
>> Or just receive email only from subscribers?
>>     
>
> We did the latter one but no longer now since non-subscribers often
> need to post to alsa-devel ML, too, especially Cc'ed from LKML posts.
>
>   
>> Why not both?
>>
>> These are "whys", I'm just asking.
>>     
>
> The problem seems in the redirection from *@alsa-project.org to SF's
> address.  The spams tend to go through in this route.
> Maybe an additional filtering in this route would be efficient.
>
> Jaroslav, what do you think?
>
>
> Takashi
>   


I offered to help out with that (I'm also a mimedefang and spamassassin 
developer)
but didn't  hear back.

-Philip



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