On 20 May 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there anyway you can stop sending these e-mails to everybody on the list? > > > I've received maybe 3 or 4 of them since yesterday. > > > > One possible solution to reduce the spam/virus traffic on the list would > > be to close the list so that only people on the list can send to it. > > The rsync team has, so far, rejected that approach. We want > to keep the list as open as possible.
Many people post to the list without subscribing, because it is the main support forum for a product. It is not really "closed" in the way that a list for a development team is. So there would be a lot of mails blocked. If they're automatically bounced then it is annoying for rsync users. If they're deferred then the delay is annoying, and somebody needs to spend time reading through the queue. At the moment I don't think that would be a good use of time. The only real solution is to send spammers and virus writers to jail. In the mean time we have set up spam and virus filters. As jw says, you are only seeing a small fraction of the literally hundreds of attacks we suffer every day. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html