On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:48 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:39, brian m. >> carlson<[email protected]> 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. > > And if for whatever reason somebody wants to see your list disfunctional, > you open an easy way to do so by implementing a bot that reports every > message as spam. Do you volunteer to fix such a situation?
every report has to be *reviewed* by humans (DDs in this case), so other than a very high number of message to review it would do no harm. >> 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 > > Sorry, no time to read these. if you'd invested 5 minutes, you wouldn't had write this email. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
