From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201877F50 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:22:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0D5AC001 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id LghJTHGXWkO3ii8Q for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:22:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:22:32 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: list spam Message-ID: <20140218212232.GG13647@dastard> References: <530386A3.1000604@hardwarefreak.com> <53039793.4040809@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Keith Keller Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:44:51AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-02-18, Brent Bice wrote: > > On 02/18/2014 09:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html > >> we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past > >> months. > >> > >> What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? > > > > Make it a moderated list... (though I'd also offer my condolences to > > the people nominated as moderators) > > Since the list is backed by Mailman, there is a less extreme option: > restrict posting to subscribed email addresses. This won't prevent all > spam, but will cut down a lot. People will still have a harder time > emailing the list, but it'd be even harder with a moderated list, so > restricting to subscribed addresses may be a reasonable compromise. We'll move the list before to a different host before we restrict access or moderate the list. It's an open public list, and it is going to remain that way. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases. Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs