I have only been glancing at this thread, but basically it comes down to this - If the spam bothers you that much setup spam filtering on your personal machine and be done with it. We waste more time and bandwidth talking about what "should" be done (with the list) then actually doing what really "should" be done (with dri). Just my thoughts ...
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Leif Delgass wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Leif Delgass wrote: > > > > >> I could do it, but I don't think it's a good idea to restrict those > > >> who are non-members of the list. Cross postings from the xfree86 lists > > >> are sometimes useful. > > >> > > >> Alan. > > > > > >What about dri-patches? It gets all the same spam that -devel and -users > > >do. I don't see any reason not to restrict posting to that list to > > >project members. Of course, there may be people with commit access that > > >aren't subscribed. Is there a way to restrict it to sourceforge accounts > > >rather than the subscriber list? > > > > Why not just have posts from non-members moderated? They would > > get held long enough for someone to look at them and go "ah, this > > is not spam", then accept the message for posting. Of course, > > that would mean a message would get held until a moderator could > > look at it. > > > > I do this on our xfree86-list, and it works well. I dunno if > > that would be something one of the list maintainers would want to > > do or not though. Just a suggestion nonetheless. > > > > On the other side of things, spamassassin rocks. It nails almost > > all of my spam. A good 93% to date anyway. > > I think spam filtering for dri-devel and dri-users would be a good > solution -- IMO, that would be better than moderation. For dri-patches, > the Reply-To is dri-devel. I'd rather have just commit messages and > nothing else on dri-patches. Any comments/replies to specific patches, or > posts dealing with CVS should go to dri-devel anyway. That's why I > suggested limiting just dri-patches to sourceforge addresses. > > -- //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || \\========================================================// ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
