From: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@edusupport.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spam on the list
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:41:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410142041.33694.Norbert@edusupport.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0410141201470.7694@chaos.analogic.com>
Can't we run it through spamassassin with a whitelist for the real users on
the list, and standard filters for the new users. With keeping track of the
pointsscore they will be auto whitelisted if they are not spammers.
On Thursday 14 October 2004 18:03, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, James Colannino wrote:
> > I was just thinking that the list receives a lot of spam. Shouldn't the
> > list be locked down to be posted to by subsribers only as to curb the
> > bulk of that spam? That's how most mailing lists I'm on are and it
> > works well. Please don't flame me for this... :) Just thought I'd
> > mention it.
> >
> > James
>
> Most of the spam comes from spam-machines that pretend that
> they are vger.kernel.org. Anything on vger.kernel.org isn't
> going to help that.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
> Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 15:51 Spam on the list James Colannino
2004-10-14 16:03 ` Ken Brush
2004-10-14 16:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 18:41 ` Norbert van Nobelen [this message]
2004-10-14 20:58 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-14 21:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-14 22:40 ` 2.8.6.1 deadlock and ext3/i2o corruption (Was: Spam on the list) Nate Riffe
2004-10-14 16:05 ` Spam on the list Jesper Juhl
2004-10-14 17:04 ` Ben Pfaff
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