Monty:
Excellent idea.
Gerald Jensen
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From: Michael Widenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: MySQL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Gerald Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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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
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