On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:39, brian m. carlson<sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just >> subscribed and already see spam and phishing attacks... > > Yes. There are infinitely many ways to make it harder to spam the list, > among them: > > * Allowing posting only by subscribers. > * Requiring a signed agreement and a surety bond before allowing posting > to the list. > * Only allowing people to post to the list if they have an armed guard > standing beside them who shoots spammers on sight. > * Not allowing posting to the list.
I here we miss the important one (the only method we have available): * report a message as spam, so that we can let us filters learn from it and subsequently remove the spam message from the archive. on the web interface of a mailing list, available at http://lists.debian.org/<list>/ , you can search for the message and "report as spam" it, clicking on the button on upper right. This can be done by *anyone*, DDs and non, and all are encouraged to do so. It's fundamental to have reports: without them we have a false sense of spam-free mailing lists, when we all know it's not true. In addition, DDs can *review* all the spam reports (to filter out false-positive from real spam messages) so that list masters can remove them from the archive. Please, every DD, dedicate 10 minutes (hopefully more that just once ;) ) of your time to do that: it's boring ok, but will result in a clean archive. More information can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam http://lists.debian.org/archive-spam-removals/review/ http://lists.debian.org/archive-spam-removals/review/stats.html Thanks for your collaboration, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org