I also had to request that the OpenEXR lists be whitelisted through our
corporate filter, but Thunderbird seems to be doing a good job of
flagging the spam. I do agree, though, that the spam will pollute the
archives and it's only going to get worse. I'm inclined to go for the
members-only option.
Gordon
Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
We can get spam from -user, -devel, and -announce. If there are 7 spam in the devel archive, that means about 20 spams in 20 days for the three. (It also means that the archive is almost all spam messages, since these lists are low traffic) It may be my fault if I'm noticing this problem, because I've had to request to turn off the corporate spam filter for this list because it caught too many positives at one point. How many legitimate users use the ability to post without subscribing? Isn't it rather cumbersome to browse the architve a few days later for the replies when you're not subscribed? My vote is to turn off non-member subscriptions.
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Luc-Eric Rousseau
Team Leader, User Interface
Softimage|XSI
-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden]On Behalf
Of Drew Hess
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:32 PM
To: Anders Dahnielson
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: latest flood of UCE - Found
word(s) UCE in the subject
Anders Dahnielson <address@hidden> writes:
The spam is probably coming from senders not subscribed to the
mailing list, so changing the Mailman settings to only accept
postings from subscribed addresses would stop most of it.
Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.
I agree with Bob, there's not much that can be done about spam on the
server/mailing list side. I would prefer not to make the mailing list
post-by-subscriber-only because a) spam bots can easily subscribe to
mailing lists anyway, b) it would make it inconvenient for legitimate
users of OpenEXR to ask questions on the lists without being
subscribed (I personally don't like mailing lists which require me to
be subscribed in order to ask a question, it's not very friendly), and
c) if I had to moderate such posts (in order to allow non-members to
post), now *I* have to deal with all the spam that hits the list, and
I don't have time for that; that's what my spam filter is for.
Looking at the archive for openexr-devel, we've only received 7 spams
on the list this month. That's fewer than 1 per day, which is nothing
by today's spam "standards."
For those of you who are seeing spam from this list, please check out
a decent spam filter; I recommend http://spambayes.sf.net. I use it
and I've never seen a single spam from any of the OpenEXR lists (nor
>From anywhere else, for that matter).
If you feel very strongly that you should not have to run a spam
filter in order to subscribe to this list, please email me privately,
and if enough people object, I'll reconsider the policy. However, I
posted the same offer on openexr-announce and nobody took me up on it,
so I suspect that for most people, this is just not an issue.
d
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