From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: aeriksson@fastmail.fm
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Spam coming from the list
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:51:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040926215157.A11082@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040926162447.718973F03@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org>; from aeriksson@fastmail.fm on Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200, aeriksson@fastmail.fm wrote:
> I hate spam as much as the next guy, but filtering in at the mail list
> server it just not the Right Thing to do. It's an end2end problem and
> needs to have and end2end solution. All of us have private filers
> anyway, and we only run the risk of dropping legitimate mail.
Disagree - peoples email systems actively reject spam, which causes
bounces. The list interprets bounces as a failure of your address,
and with enough of them will disable and then unsubscribe you.
Obviously bad news for the subscribers.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-26 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-26 14:45 Spam coming from the list Julio De Gregorio
2004-09-26 15:29 ` Russell King
2004-09-26 16:24 ` aeriksson
2004-09-26 20:51 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-09-27 11:51 ` Frank Mehnert
2004-09-27 12:16 ` David Pottage
2004-09-27 14:24 ` Harald Milz
2004-09-27 14:39 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-27 15:04 ` Harald Milz
2004-09-27 21:39 ` Francesco Poli
2004-09-27 20:35 ` aeriksson
2004-09-27 20:50 ` Russell King
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