What about people getting the list as a digest?  Also, the spam ends 
up in the mail archives.

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, D. Hageman wrote:

> 
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Leif Delgass 
http://www.retinalburn.net



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