Scott Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm not sure who said this, as ironically at least one message in this >> thread was caught by my spam filter... > >> I'm actually blocking some spam, and could probably block more, with >> Mailman's rather crap filtering, but unfortunately that just pipes >> everything into an admin queue instead of blocking it outright. I >> wonder how much of Sourceforge's bandwidth and disk is being wasted >> by their failure to implement antispam measures... > > Well, the first and most effective anti-spam measure for a list is to > just require subscription to the list.
It's also extremely annoying to those trying to send non-spam to the list. Any method chosen to combat spam should not have any negative effect on non-spammers. Period. -- I would hate for my bungholio to get polio.
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