Re: Recent SPAM on lkcd-general

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:18:31 +0100 Fritz Elfert <[email protected]> wrote:

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| Hi,
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| I recently noticed a lot of spam on this list. For example, here the last 10 
| messages i received:
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| That makes a SPAM ratio of 6/4, which imho is far too much. All of the
| spam messages, originally have been addressed to [email protected] which
| seems to be gated to this list and seems to be open for everyone.
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| So please either shut down gating of [email protected] or make that list
| a members-only list. If lkcd-general isn't members-only already, (sf lists
| usually are) please make it members-only as well.
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| Thanks for your attention.

The lists could use some spam filtering, agreed.

I cannot agree that they should be restricted to members-only posting,
however.  And the SF lists that I often use are not so restricted.
(e.g., linux-usb-users, linux-usb-devel, linux-hotplug-devel)

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~Randy


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