On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:33:55PM +0100, Oyvind A. Holm wrote: > On 2002-01-22 00:47 +0100 Jim Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I've had it with debian-curiosa. I get more spam from this > > list then everywhere else by and order of magnitude. I'm off. It's > > been fun, but the sprukers are cluttering my eyes. > > On 2002-01-22 00:55 martin f krafft answered: > > i am on the same list. i really can't remember any spam recently. > > There is that Korean unreadable stuff which is posted now and then. I > don't think debian-curiosa is any worse than the other Debian lists, > the all contain lots of spam. In fact, about the only spam I get > nowadays comes from the Debian list. It's very irritating. I really > think the lists only should accept messages from the members registered > with it, if any mail from non-members is received, it is put on hold > and the list owner has to approve it. > > Is there any good reasons why the Debian lists has to accept messages > from non-members?
It gets posts from non-members, that's why. Debian[0] won't accept any solution that involves censoring users. That means you have to 0 false-hits. That rules out all the automatic tools people use. The only way I can think of to do this is allow subscribers and past posters through automatically, and flag the rest to be manually moderated. But this requires a group of volunteers to the moderation, and nothing will happen until there is such a group. [0] IANADD, so I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds, but I think this is the option of debian in general. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
