On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: >Each of us has different tolerance levels, this is not reaching my serious >irritation point.
[ Not directed at Jon since he was not the one complaining. ] Our respective tolerance levels are irrelevant to the issue at hand. Spam filtering is the responsibility of the recipient, not an intermediary like the Amanda listserv. If the amount of spam on this list is too much for you then select a spam filter which fits your needs and install it. It's not like this software hasn't existed for years now. Plus, there's been an evolutionary leap in the technology lately. Now content-based filters have been eclipsed by the promise of probabilistic analysis. Check out bogofilter[0] for a program which you can teach to identify content which doesn't interest you and filter it. The Amanda mailing list should continue to remain open to non-subscribers. This is a fairly high traffic list and those with incidental amanda questions should not be required to subscribe to it in order to post their question. Open lists do invite spam, but as I said above if that bothers you it's your responsibility to filter it. Your membership in an open mailing list is your decision. Nobody at the Amanda listserv is forwarding you anything you didn't sign up for. [0] - http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/ -- Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology "This isn't rocket science -- but it _is_ computer science." - Terry Lambert on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
