Monty: Excellent idea.
Gerald Jensen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Widenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gerald Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:09 AM Subject: Spams on MySQL mailing lists Hi! I was going through some of the old emails on the MySQL mailing list and noticed the many threads that discussed spams. (There seemed to be more emails discussing spams than true spams, but this is a separate issue). We here at MySQL AB do a lot of work to avoid spam and we are working on new better methods to do this. Previously Sasha was in charge of tuning the spam filters for the email list, but as he has lately been working full time on new replication features he has not had time to actively work on improving the current filter and keeping it up to date. We hope however to soon have a new person working on this to improve the quality of the MySQL public mailing lists. We have several times considering making the email lists subscribers only, but as I have posted previously, we believe this is not a good solution as it will make it much harder for new MySQL users to get help for their problems. (According from previous experience, a big part of the new MySQL users are not going to subscribe to a mailing list just to post a problem). My personal opinion is to go with the solution where a new, not subscribed poster would have to confirm his email the first time would be a good enough solution for us at this point. (Like on the PHP lists) Regards, Monty CTO of MySQL AB --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php